haris: if so, then dont pick out of context verses to misinterpret them. And you dont hav any right to question about the book which you never read..
My last sentence winds up the discussion completely..
I'll leave the interpretation to you. But when i hear crazy things like homosexuality is a disease, atheism is worse than murder, women are not as smart as men when they are menstruating, there is no such thing as marital rape, then what should I assume? That there is something wrong with the verses, or the Muslims who interpret them?
To reiterate my first point, it's people who hold those crazy 12th century ideas that give Islam, or any religion for that matter, a bad name. Now I'll leave it for Muslims to decide whether those crazy ideas come from the book or some Muslims wrong interpretation, but until the crazy ideas go away, no amount of "omg evrybodys a racist islamophobe muslim hater nazi" is going to help change Islam's public image.
In civilized societies, most people don't care about you religious affiliation. Your label "muslim", "hindu", "jew" or even "atheist" tells people nothing about you as a person. What matters is the stuff that you actually believe in. If you are a sensible person and believe none of that aforementioned crazy shxt, you can call yourself "hitler's mom" for all i care, you'd have my respect.