A Misconception about Islam

[SteelCurtain]

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Okay kansins, let me ask this. Your a moderate, say I'm a wahabist. we are publically debating who's veiw of islam is right, you read that passage from the qur'an and I say it supports this and you say no mohammed is saying that. The thing is that as with most holy books it can be interpreted to support either view, how can you prove interpretation is right and mine is wrong when what we are doing is interpreting a text from a long dead author?

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You are very right. This is a danger which befalls when you start using Quran as a tool to justify yourself. Personally , I think first of Prophet Muhammad like if he was in my place , what would He have done ? And almost every time I have found a solution to my answers which satisfied me. For me , 'humanism' comes first. And I believe Islam is humanism. So when I will interpret something from Quran , I will do so positively with a positive perspective along with looking for texts that are for universal mankind .

This is the very problem. No one says that there aren't Muslims that interpret the Qur'an like you do. No one says that the moderates are not the majority. All I am saying is that there are a significant number of Muslims that have the other interpretation and create theocracies that breed extremism.

My problem comes when Muslims try to exclude those extremists from the religion. They are still Muslims, and they are interpreting the same passages that you are, just in a different way. My point is that the religion has some bad ideas in it that are dangerous, and therefore it is not out of bounds to state the same.