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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner
Which doesn't change the fact that Islam is whatever the Quran says it is.
And you, again, call others stupid, which I slowly but surely really start to dislike.
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And Christianity is whatever the Bible says it is? Or is there something magical about the Quran which makes its words transparent, unambiguous and devoid of alternative interpretations? If a Muslim told me that, I could understand it as an assertion of faith (without accepting it of course), but it seems an odd claim for an infidel to be making. The simple fact is that from the day the words were first written down, Islamic scholars have been debating what exactly it means.
Incidentally, only a small minority of Muslims consider the Quran to be the sole authority on Islam - most also include the
sunnah, which is likewise the subject of much debate (not least because Sunni and Shia Muslims disagree over what texts are included).