Comments for "Laleh Bakhtiar: First American Women to Translate the Qur'an" Video at VideoSift.com

By budzos

budzos (http://www.videosift.com/member/budzos) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:37:16 -0700

God is dead. All deities are myths. All holy texts are written by lying assholes. Religious people are insane and I'm sick of being so polite about their superstitious claptrap.

By gwaan

gwaan (http://gwaan.videosift.com) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:39:46 -0700

2 more votes!!!!!

By BicycleRepairMan

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:38:42 -0700

I find this debate comically absurd, its so amazing that they simply cannot admit that this book was written by fallible human beings. If they'd only admit to this obvious fact, none of this hair-splitting would be needed.

But I do appreciate efforts to make reformations of Islam that might weaken the doctrine the way the Christian doctrine has weakened in the past 200 years to become this abstract, secular mess it currently is(in the more modern forms). Which is much preferred over the "inerrant word of God" interpretations.

By moodonia

moodonia (http://www.videosift.com/member/moodonia) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:23:16 -0700

I have always been told that Islam specifically forbids reinterpretation of the Quaran (koran?) i.e. its God word and cant be altered in any way. Reza Aslan said (on the Daily show I believe) that this prevents a "Muslim reformation" or modernising of muslim ways (no offense meant to muslims).

I would think that feminist muslims should stop wasting their time and just quit either Islam or feminism.