Never was tryng to compare religions. If you read my posts, you will notice that I was also talking about medieval Europe an the church of that time.lonewolf wrote:As I said, that was all in medieval Europe. People are no longer burnt at the stake or anything like that as far as Christians are concerned. The Quran may be flexible regarding science, but the Muslim clergy (mullas) are not. In many Islamic schools and madarassas, you'll find that they still teach that the sun revolves round the earth. Refer to one of Taslima Nasreen's articles where she writes about this. She's been issued a fatwa for speaking out (a punishment that was meted out centuries ago to Christians with similar attitudes). By the way, I got a lot of information about this from a (Muslim) Yemeni friend who is very broad-minded and religious. So I'm not reading off some anti-Islam site or some ranting by xyz on the Internet. All I want to say is if you want to make a point regarding what the Quran says, go ahead and do it. But your posts sounded like you were making comparisons between religions and I just wanted to bring to the open some facts that you needed to know.
The post I made was concerning the church's disapproval of science at that period of time. The mullahs and other islamic fundamentalists you see around, are our very own version of the churches of medieval europe.
I am not trying to sell the Quran. There are certain limits to anything, and I will definitely not become a PR for the Quran, or any other thing in Islam. It was for argument sake; I can only comment authoritatively on the Quran as I have read it. I will definitely read the other holy books, and then maybe I can use their words too.
