| > There is no text which codifies it, unlike Islam. Each sect has a different Quran, different Sharia, different precepts. There are massive differences in the way Islam is practiced across the world. > Unlike religion, its not voluntary. Imagine then someone who openly claims to be an artist and that creating art is a part of them. Would you say this person culturally associate with a murderer who kills "for art"? Both call themselves and associate with the artistic work. > I would say a better analogy would be a white man associating himself with black gang culture by getting gold teeth, gold chains, tattoos,etc to a job. I don't think that it is a good analogy, as that white man associate concretely to black gang culture. A better analogy would be, a man who associate with black culture in general but gets rejected because his employer consider him to associate with black gang culture although he claims he doesn't. |
Uhhhh no. The koran is the koran is the koran. Written in Arabic, not a single letter to be changed because it is 'perfect' according to itself [1]:
The Hadith are another story, not so much their contents but which ones are followed.[1] http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=6&verse=115