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It is contrary to how traditional Muslims would approach the Qur'án. However, not all Muslims are traditional. A small example:

http://www.pmuna.org/

http://progressivemuslims.tripod.com/index2.html

http://www.derafsh-kaviyani.com/english/quran1.html

The Koran is a text, a literary text, and the only way to understand, explain, and analyze it is through a literary approach," Abu Zaid says. "This is an essential theological issue." For expressing views like this in print -- in essence, for challenging the idea that the Koran must be read literally as the absolute and unchanging Word of God -- Abu Zaid was in 1995 officially branded an apostate, a ruling that in 1996 was upheld by Egypt's highest court. The court then proceeded, on the grounds of an Islamic law forbidding the marriage of an apostate to a Muslim, to order Abu Zaid to divorce his wife, Ibtihal Yunis (a ruling that the shocked and happily married Yunis described at the time as coming "like a blow to the head with a brick").

Abu Zaid steadfastly maintains that he is a pious Muslim, but contends that the Koran's manifest content -- for example, the often archaic laws about the treatment of women for which Islam is infamous -- is much less important than its complex, regenerative, and spiritually nourishing latent content. The orthodox Islamic view, Abu Zaid claims, is stultifying; it reduces a divine, eternal, and dynamic text to a fixed human interpretation with no more life and meaning than "a trinket ... a talisman ... or an ornament."

For a while Abu Zaid remained in Egypt and sought to refute the charges of apostasy, but in the face of death threats and relentless public harassment he fled with his wife from Cairo to Holland, calling the whole affair "a macabre farce." Sheikh Youssef al-Badri, the cleric whose preachings inspired much of the opposition to Abu Zaid, was exultant. "We are not terrorists; we have not used bullets or machine guns, but we have stopped an enemy of Islam from poking fun at our religion.... No one will even dare to think about harming Islam again."

jewish people dont force thier religion on anyone else. but christians and islam do. so it comes down to this

It is contrary to how traditional Muslims would approach the Qur'án. However, not all Muslims are traditional. A small example:

http://www.pmuna.org/

http://progressivemuslims.tripod.com/index2.html

http://www.derafsh-kaviyani.com/english/quran1.html

thats good. thank you

i want a muslim to answer me

1. why the angel gabriel is the holy spirit
2. who replaced jesus on the cross

thank you