Someone who has actually read the Qur’an and figured out like all scripture, it is full of contradiction. The Meaning of the Koran – NYTimes.com. But I should concede that I haven’t told the whole story. Even while calling Jesus the word of God — and “the Messiah” — the Koran denies that he was the son of God or was himself divine. And, though the Koran does call the Jews God’s chosen people, and sings the praises of Moses, and says that Jews and Muslims worship the same God, it also has anti-Jewish, and for that matter anti-Christian, passages.
Thanks for this essay — I enjoyed it and found it both thought-provoking and resonant.
I also think the writer is a good example of the secular majority of American Muslims.
http://www.ilaam.net/Opinions/SecularMajority.html