Bowdlerize Your Quran

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 9 January 2023 GGS wonders who're these Muslim suicide bombers and who equips them with logistics and ammunition to carry out all these self-destructive suicide bombings. It's the ambiguity of your Quranic verses that produces such reprehensible characters who kill Kafirs as well as their own brethren by blowing themselves up. Just think for a moment, do the followers of any other religions, viz, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Bahai, Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism and quasi-faiths indulge in blowing themselves up and killing innocent people? Only Muslims are involved in such gory and ghastly acts. Why? Anwar Shaikh (an apostate who converted to Vedic Hinduism and rechristened himself as Aniruddh Gyaan Shikha) wrote in his book ' Islam and Terrorism ' that there are everlasting interpretative gulf and loopholes between the Quran and the comprehension of the followers (read Muslims). This needs some enumeration. Though all man-written scriptures are somewhat obscure and unintelligible, there's not so much ambiguity in them. That a huge group of people draws killing instincts and negative interpretations from certain verses and some (apologists) from the same faith aver that these people have misunderstood the meaning of certain Quranic verses is a plain hogwash. This is glossing over the gross transgressions perpetrated by a humongous chunk of Muslims who'll kill yet proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace! When errors of interpretations are so many and the same faith produces poles asunder personalities like Rumi and Osama Bin Laden, the interpretative obscurity of the Quran becomes all the more obvious. Didn't Rumi, despite being a Muslim, rather audaciously say that his Masnavis were the Quran in Pahlavi and he left out the bones of the original Quran and retained only the pulp in his Masnavis? In other words, he hinted that he eliminated the bogus parts of the Quran and retained what was sublime and exalted in it. However hard an apologist may try, at least 26 verses in the Quran are potentially dangerous to mankind. Suicide bombers find them edicts from Allah and go on killing and self-destructing spree. Unless a whole body of willing and fearless Muslim scholars systematically removes the most equivocal verses from the Quran and purges it of all obscurities, suicide bombers will continue to kill the innocent people and average Muslims will go on casting aspersions on Kafirs. Bowdlerize your Quran. ---- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-politics/bowdlerize-quran-muslims-islam-/d/128830 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism