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Submitted by Michael (United Arab Emirates), Mar 9, 2022 at 01:56

>Dear Dr Pipes, my guess is that most Muslims learn about Islam and Quran from their innocent grandmothers, selfish maulvis, or resident apologists. That is why bizarre narratives about Quran get created and remain unchallenged.

Stop coming up with stupid excuses. Also, tell your Pandits to stop getting covered in cow dung thinking it cures Corona.

>One such narrative about Quran is that it is most eloquent and nothing that eloquent can be created. Reader Michael presented this narrative but did not define what he meant by eloquent. Is Quran eloquent because it has nice rhetoric? Or because it only presents the truth? Or because it is scientific? Or something else? Unless we know the definition of eloquence, we cannot say that Quran is eloquent.

Some of the greatest poets of the world rested in Arabia yet, absolutely no one could accept the challenge of Muhammed and produce verses as poetic as the Qur'an. And as icing on the cake, Muhammed received no sort of formal education.

And eloquence is fluency in writing and speaking. So yeah, now you know.

>To me, Quran 5:33 does not look very eloquent.

It was the polytheists that waged war and this verse was like encouragement for the Muslims to not surrender but to fight back.

And all those pedophilic verses in the Hindu scriptures don't really look super eloquent to me tbh.

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