Publish Karen Armstrong's version of Quran and make it real:

Submitted by hari iyer (United States), Dec 19, 2002 at 10:15

Karen Armstrong is a natural PR machine for Islam and Wahabbi and she has committed intellectual dishonesty.

Now how about this? Is it possible, in a literary way to publish, "Original Quran: By Karen Armstrong" and where the God in Quran says, "Kill the infidels" and change it to "Kiss the infidel", and where it says, "don't make friends with Christians and Jews" change it to "make good friends with Christians and Jews and all non-believers" and
make Karen Armstrong "right" and make it to suggested reading in all madrassas?
Then Karen Armstrong's Quran would be the authoritative version of Quran. After all the Islamists keep praising Karen Armstrong. Let us see how they can actually eat the new version.

Wouldn't that be poetic justice to Karen Armstrong and all Islamists? What can they do? If they yell and scream it will demonstrate their true colors. If they accept, then perhaps, we may see a transformation or a new 'version/vision' of Islam?

For a start, it would be nice if someone gets a complete version of Wahabbi version of Quran in English, cut and paste it in word, then replace all "kill" with "kiss", replace all "infidels" with "friends" and convert it back to Arabic, publish it and call it Karen Armstrong's version of Islam and sell it in the Islamic world. Let us see if they accept it.

Either way, it is a win-win situation for the civilized world.

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