Moderate Islam?

[Ashendant]

@Minimalist
Well I have never heard anyone suggesting teaching arabic instead of english. Not even as a second langauge.
Most of the turkish people will see that as a threat to our secular republic. Actually its ridiculous its just a langauge but Most of us still have the fear of going back to the ottoman days when we were ruled by sharia..
Of course there are some people who would want that and more.(well thats why we have that fear.) But most of the people would be disturbed even the idea of teaching arabic in public schools.

Apparently there is a belief that the book can't be translated properly?

yes that is one of the excuse of our apologists. Each time when we show them a stupid or violent verse they say it must be a translation mistake you can't translate arabic correctly, you have to read it arabic, you cant understand it otherwise, It has so many meanings you cant translate!?!? this kind of bullcrap. It's rather funny but they believe in it..Thats why you can't make them accept that quran has lots of stupid and violent verses even if you show them...

the truly magnificent way that English is taught in Turkey.

Are you kidding me?It's actually rather inadequate.. You can't possibly learn english in public schools. But its a general problem for our educational system...

@ DeistPaladin

I think Cerrone has an interesting point that it's not so much that Christianity became tolerant as much as it became increasingly constrained by civilization and modernity. They burn Harry Potter books now instead of heretics because they no longer are allowed to burn heretics. Muslim Imams are allowed to cut off the head of or hang apostates, gays, witches, etc because some places in the world still allow it.

Thats right but remember people who forbid these actions was also christian. There are christians and there are CHRISTIANS.. Its same for muslims. But here MUSLIMS are more then muslims..

funny the muslims stole their laws from the christians, the christians from the jews, and the jews stole from the egyptian