"The verse immediately following those letters contains a key Islamic
doctrine: “This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt.” The Qur’an is not
to be questioned or judged by any standard outside itself; rather, it is the
standard by which all other things are to be judged. That, of course, is not
significantly different from the way many other religions regard their Holy
Writ. But there has been no development in Islam of the historical and textual
criticism that have transformed the ways Jews and Christians understand their
scriptures today. The Qur’an is a book never to be doubted, never to be
questioned: when one Islamic scholar, Suliman Bashear, taught his students at
An-Najah National University in Nablus that the Qur’an and Islam were the
products of historical development rather than being delivered in perfect form
to Muhammad, his students threw him out of the window of his classroom. "
I think this is a clear and important difference between the west, and the religions of Christianity and Judaism and Islam. In the west we have developed an attitude of accepting those that hold views that are different than our own, even on things as important as god. The eastern world has not gotten to that point it appears.
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