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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...
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...
...Islam is, for him, "the latest and the greatest" of all infidel aggressions against the religion in its 14-century history. By their very presence, he believes, the U.S. forces defile the Muslim holy land. "Now infidels walk everywhere on the land where Muhammad was born and where the Koran was revealed to him," he lamented to TIME in a 1998 interview...
...your hatred of others cause you to act unjustly against them." ?The Koran...
...warned of the dangers of “cut and paste” interpretations of the Koran, and suggested that any set of religious teachings could be made to reinforce any point of view if one was allowed to quote out of context or from poorly translated works...