The Qur'an through godless eyes - Part 1 Introduction

Warning: This is a rather dry and quasi-academic video series. No pwnage or laffs.

Islam has become an important topic in the West and on Youtube in particular. In order to be able to intelligently discuss Islam with Muslims I felt it was important to read the Qur'an.
Part 1 describes my motivation and approach
Part 2 presents the positive teachings I found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbRq8Gs6QWM
Resources mentioned:
http://www.islamawakened.com/
http://www.islamic-dictionary.com/
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp
http://www.huda.tv/services/the-holy-quran
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/
http://www.progressivemuslims.org/

The Skeptics Annotated Bible page also has an annotated Qur'an. It is the Pickthall translation. I choose to avoid using this so as to not be influenced by their annotations. I wanted to form my own opinions.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.htm

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Qur'an
• quran
• godless
• ozmoroid
• Islam
• atheist
• atheism

[mordinvan]

I'm curious why you would chose the most 'sympathetic' reading, as opposed to the most 'accurately' (widely trusted) reading?

[ozmoroid]

@mordinvan I tried to explain in the vid. I wanted to give the Qur'an every benefit of the doubt, to error on the side of the more liberl/progressive interpretation. So, I decided to let someone push the translation to be as "progressive" as possible and then let's see what we get. It's still pretty bad (see part 3).

[aqouby]

Why wasn't this funny?! I demand a joke!!

[SicSeb]

@SicSeb Btw, where are the Medina verses?

[SicSeb]

The most sympethatic translation isn't (always) the real translation from arabic. I would've suggested to go straight to the horse's mouth and find the quran, hadith and its commentaries on the site of the ministery of islamic affairs of saudi arabia. Or go the center of sunni islam, al azhar university in Cairo for your sources.

Eitherway, it's too late for that now.

[kokopingo]

Thank you for doing this and I like your approach in doing this study.

[lashkaretoiba]

@ozmoroid At least you're consistent.

[ozmoroid]

@lashkaretoiba Certainly.

[lashkaretoiba]

@ozmoroid Do you give christianity every benefit of the doubt too?