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>Christoph Luxenberg, a scholar of ancient Semitic languages in Germany,
>argues that the Koran has been misread and mistranslated for centuries. . .
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>A return to the earliest Koran, Mr. Puin and others suggest, might lead to
>a
>more tolerant brand of Islam, as well as one that is more conscious of its
>close ties to both Judaism and Christianity.
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What a moron. Evertone with half a sense of history know that from its inception in the 8th century CE to the 1920s and 30s, Islam was the world capital of interfaith tolerance. Muslims gave Jews and even well-behaved Christians honored and respected placesof trust and honor in their heterogenous societies during the centuries that Christians were conducting pogroms against the Jews, vicious wars od religioon, heresy-hunts, and mass expulsions of unbelievers. Fundamentalist Islam is younger by a century than its Christian cousin, and has no real hisrorical roots in the broad-minded, tolerant, cosmopolitan temper of the traditional faith. Muslims were also more tolerant than Jews,a lthough after 70 CE Jews were not in much of a position to do more than ostracize dissidents.
jks
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