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Originally Posted by AleaIactaEst
In saying that, I do not agree with the ideas contained within the Qu'ran, and, we are talking about a book which seems to propagate censorship, scientific repression (Apparently a recent feature, as it wasn't read that way historically) and is the inspiration for murder and mutilation in some cases.
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I've never read it, but I'd suspect that it is not the book itself but the fundamentalists themselves that read the contents in a manner that fits the message they want. This is no better than fundamentalist Christians wanting to burn (and thus censor) the Qu'ran themselves.
I guess we all have to remember that extremists of any (or no) religion have wacky ideas regardless of their background. Does the book(s) cause the extremism, or does the person cause it? I think it is the person, not the book. A 'normal' person isn't suddenly going to become a rabid extremist just from reading a book!