Word: koranic
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...with a Western man, she looks around furtively. It is the same motion countless Afghan women make every day, the rapid adjusting of veils to cover their faces or the eyes quickly downcast when men enter the room. To help empower women, Nazir runs workshops that include reading the Koran, Islam's holy book. "If women can read the Koran themselves," she says, "they will learn there is nothing in Islam that says women do not have the same rights...
...Alliance also points to schools like the one in Yang-e-Qale, a remote hamlet a half-hour's jeep ride from Khoja Bahauddin, as proof that it promotes women's rights. More than 50 veiled girls crowd the Yang-e-Qale school's first-grade class, reading the Koran. But in the eighth-grade class, only 12 students sit at the desks, their burkas hanging on hooks in the back of their classroom. Many parents believe a couple of years' education is all their daughters need to become good housewives. Other girls in the area attend classes only because...
...wars of the early caliphate that saw the Muslim Empire spread from Persia to Morocco. But, there is no call in the religion for a “glad heart” in war, as Douthat claims, no “war-like spirit.” The Koran proclaims fighting to be a grave sin, exceeded and justified only by the graver evil of oppression and tyranny...
...Koran declares that if a non-Muslim group is at peace with the Muslim community, then the Muslims should treat them with justice and kindness. Douthat insinuates that the Prophet’s example declares “irrevocable enmity” between Muslims and non-Muslims. Yet all evidence speaks to the contrary. Consider for example, the Charter of Privileges to the monks of the St. Catherine Monastery in Mt. Sinai, in which the Prophet swears to “hold out against anything that displeases them” and promises that Muslims shall defend the monks. Property...
Islam, like all faiths, has its twists and turns, and the Koran, like all holy books, has been interpreted in tangled ways over the course of 13 centuries. The same text that promises that “even if you stretch out your hand against me to kill me, I shall not stretch out my hand against you to kill you” also exhorts the faithful to “slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have a great punishment...