The Koran states that Jesus was born miraculously of the Virgin Mary, but the Koran states that none of the prophets were divine, including Jesus.
The founding principle of Islam is that the Koran is the direct word of God, revealed to Muhammad in order that he impart it to humankind.
One of the great falsehoods deployed by the conservatives, nearly all of them men, is that the Koran, the word of God as imparted to Muhammad more than 13 centuries ago, decrees that women should remain in second place.
Most Muslims believe that the Koran is the literal and absolute word of God, not open to interpretation.
Because unlike the interpretations of other holy books, Muslims believe that the Koran is the word of God and can never be changed.
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Barring a brief interlude in the ninth and tenth centuries, and a few modern liberals, Muslims have mostly believed that the Koran is distinct from every other communication.
In one particular extract, it says the paper omitted a punctuation mark, so that it appeared that the Koran was described with an obscene word, when this was not, in fact, the case.
One of Britain's most liberal-minded imams did turn up to the conference, and after a lengthy plea to have his anonymity preserved, said that the Koran explicitly condemns hatred and killing, not homosexuality.
Even Mr Yildirim, the imam, accepts that the right way to interpret the Koran is that one should have only as many children as can be adequately cared for.
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Turkey's pious producers like the bits in the Koran that favour honest trading.
Riffat Hassan, a Pakistani-American, argues that though the Koran treats women with respect, centuries of patriarchy have turned them into chattels.
But one of them mentioned that in the Koran it actually says the reason to talk about your philanthropy is if it encourages other people to do the same.
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Is that what the Koran teaches?
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It's the Koran that's saying it.
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If you want to argue that partial versions of Hebrew and Christian stories are visible in the Koran, or that its historical portions are inaccurate, nobody will stop you.
Most Muslim children are told that they need know only one thing about the Koran's origin: that it was revealed over a period of 23 years by the angel Gabriel to Muhammad.
The ruling Shiite religious parties are demanding that provisions of the Koran, called Sharia, become the supreme authority on marriage, divorce, and inheritance issues.
"We teach what it says in the Koran, that God created Adam and Eve, and from them came the rest of humanity, " says institute director Dr Musharraf Hussain.
The trial had previously heard that Mrs Ege had initially told police she had regularly beaten Yaseen because he was not learning the Koran well enough and that on the day he died she had set a fire to destroy any evidence.
Few Muslims in reality, she says, follow Mr Ramadan's view that every part of the Koran must be seen in its historic context.
It is vital that we differentiate between the Koran, from which much of the raw material for producing Islamic law is derived, and the law itself.
Merely stepping on a newspaper that contained a verse from the Koran could be construed as a blasphemy.
The fact that Islam's main text, the Koran, is regarded as the actual word of God necessarily assigns a paramount place to the interpreters of this text.
Yet, when she sat down and read the Koran on her own, she found that everything the preachers had said was written in the book.
Such blue-chip financial institutions rely largely on 20 or so rock-star sharia scholars to certify that their financial products are in accord with the Koran and the Prophet's teachings.
But why couldn't there be a movement within Islam that would say, "Yes, the Koran says X, Y, and Z, and it has been interpreted violently by violent people, but we give it a different interpretation"?
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For edicts to carry divine imprimatur, they must be unambiguously stated in the Koran or sunna (the body of literature that includes the sayings and biography of the prophet).
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Over the weekend one of her accusers, the local imam, was himself arrested and charged with blasphemy, after his deputy said that he had seen the imam tear up pages of the Koran in order to fabricate evidence against the girl.
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My understanding is that there is now some training of the service members in terms of how to deal with this kind of situation -- disposal of the Koran, respect for holy books, things like that -- for service members serving in Afghanistan.
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