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Here is another insight
The Koran
Greyhawk
The Reverend Donald Sensing has an insightful post on the Koran Basically, the Quran’s place in Islam is the same as the place of Christ in Christianity.
The analogy is not exact, of course, because Christians cannot point to or touch Christ because “He has been raised; he is not here,” while there are hundreds of millions of copies of the Quran available in the world.
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But the literal, verbatim dictation of the Quran by Allah to Mohammed, through the angel Gabriel, is a very basic tenet of faith of Muslims everywhere. The words of the Quran are affirmed not merely to have been inspired by Allah but they are the actual, very words of Allah. Therefore the Quran is for Muslims not just a book but the physical representation of the deity himself. So abusing the Quran is a hideous offense to Muslims more than the same abuse of a Bible would be to Christians.
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Hence, it is crucial, as President Bush has emphasized, that the United States not be seen by Muslim peoples around the world as attacking Islam itself, only its malevolent practitioners. So the reports of the abuse of the Quran are more important than they might appear to secular, western Americans.
That being said, five incidents of such abuse are darn few and don’t deserve near the attention being showered on them by the MSM. As for making hay out of the 15 incidents of Quran abuse by the Muslim detainees themselves, forget it. Members of any religious sect can get away with disrespect to the faith that outsiders cannot. The perpetrators of the 15 abuses will be excused as driven to madness by the Americans on the one hand or perhaps condemned by the Muslim faithful on the other as individual offenders against Islam. But they will not be seen as seeking the destruction of Islam itself as the United States always risks being seen (even though Islamists are exactly the foremost enemies of Islam in the world today)…
Read it all.
The Koran
Greyhawk
The Reverend Donald Sensing has an insightful post on the Koran Basically, the Quran’s place in Islam is the same as the place of Christ in Christianity.
The analogy is not exact, of course, because Christians cannot point to or touch Christ because “He has been raised; he is not here,” while there are hundreds of millions of copies of the Quran available in the world.
<…>
But the literal, verbatim dictation of the Quran by Allah to Mohammed, through the angel Gabriel, is a very basic tenet of faith of Muslims everywhere. The words of the Quran are affirmed not merely to have been inspired by Allah but they are the actual, very words of Allah. Therefore the Quran is for Muslims not just a book but the physical representation of the deity himself. So abusing the Quran is a hideous offense to Muslims more than the same abuse of a Bible would be to Christians.
<…>
Hence, it is crucial, as President Bush has emphasized, that the United States not be seen by Muslim peoples around the world as attacking Islam itself, only its malevolent practitioners. So the reports of the abuse of the Quran are more important than they might appear to secular, western Americans.
That being said, five incidents of such abuse are darn few and don’t deserve near the attention being showered on them by the MSM. As for making hay out of the 15 incidents of Quran abuse by the Muslim detainees themselves, forget it. Members of any religious sect can get away with disrespect to the faith that outsiders cannot. The perpetrators of the 15 abuses will be excused as driven to madness by the Americans on the one hand or perhaps condemned by the Muslim faithful on the other as individual offenders against Islam. But they will not be seen as seeking the destruction of Islam itself as the United States always risks being seen (even though Islamists are exactly the foremost enemies of Islam in the world today)…
Read it all.