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Manco, I'm not talking about Muslims whatsoever. I've known loads of nice Muslims and saying that all of them are bad is utterly retarded, the thing is, it's not that they're interpreting the Quran in their own way, they're just not following it like a "true" Muslim should. What is a "true" Muslim? Somebody who follows it to a tee, according to the book itself, and the book is what they follow.
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A Muslim is a follower of Islam. If you’re making statements about Islam then you are by extension making statements about its followers. You can either accept that with multiple interpretations of Islam come multiple denominations of Muslim, or you can tar them all with the same brush.
And if you’re going to start trying to tell me about “true” Muslims then while you’re at it can you also tell me what a true Scotsman is while you’re at it?
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Written work is not currency, you do not adapt it for current society by saying "eh, I can ASSUME they meant this". It's a product of it's time, nobody is denying that,but it says what it says and it says it pretty clearly.
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Yes, you
do adapt it in that way. You can acknowledge that it was a product of its time and focus on the other aspects of the text that stand up to modern morality.
I’m not denying what it says, I’m pointing out that followers are free to interpret it how they choose.