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To: kumar who wrote (402498)	1/7/2011 5:09:31 PM
From: ManyMoose	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793907

I learned a lot about Islam last night, none of which prompted me to moderate any of my recently acquired prejudices against it. Twenty years ago I accepted it as one of the three greatest, ie largest, religions but I can no longer do that. If I captured incorrectly what the speakers said, I'm still pretty sure at least one of them said that the Koran is the direct word of God. That is not all that different from Christian and Jewish teachings about the Bible, but we all know that human beings wrote them. The difference that I see between the Jewish and Christian faiths and that of Islam is that the former two do not seek to dominate the world by force while the latter explicitly does. Any history such as the Crusades and Inquisition has been utterly rejected. To me, the matter is settled.

To: kumar who wrote (402498)	1/8/2011 12:24:58 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793907

Mohammed was illiterate but he lived in a semi-literate society. Their tradition is that scribes in the Sahaabah wrote down his words. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that this went on. Years later these writings were collected, collated, and edited (though saying that in some neighborhoods could get you killed) into the Koran. But you are correct that there was also an oral tradition about Mohammed that didn't get written down for a long time after he died.