The Qur'an through godless eyes - Part 2 The good

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. In this series I am interested in finding out what the Qur'an actually says - not what a particular group of Muslims interprets it to say. Just as in Christianity, the same text can give rise to a wide variety of interpretation, some mutually exclusive.

Part 1 describes my motivation and approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_l-a20fqMM
Part 2 describes the good teachings I found in the Qur'an

Category:

Education

Tags:

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

[whybag]

Coming back to the whole series 6 months after "The Bad" was finished, I'm really given the impression that, all the good in this book, is more akin to "Even a blind finds a nut sometimes."

[ozmoroid]

@whybag I feel the same way.

[DSAhmed]

(at 8:40 - the misleading verse) The real problem with this verse is the words "corruption in the land" this can be interpreted as pretty much anything that goes against islam.

[ozmoroid]

@DSAhmed That a very good point.

[MrLuvaluva67]

You see you can't even read it properly, you pronounced "Piety" Pitty and you are altering it deliberately to mock Islam, you will be punished severely... trust me on that;)

[ozmoroid]

@MrLuvaluva67 It's a pity I pronounced pie-et-teee as if it were pi-tee. ;-)

[castroherman]

@daliaalsaid1 So basically, men are all potential rapists and adulterers, women who don't wear what you and those who think like you feel is appropriate are insulting themselves and their families, so women have to cover themselves. If we reduce that logic ad absurdum we could just as easily just force all men to wear blindfolds in public. Another spiffy idea is to just have a secular democratic society with individual freedom so that no one HAS to wear any sort of uniform at all.

[hubbabubbarubbalubba]

Muslims take this book too seriously.

[daliaalsaid1]

i would like you to talk about women's right in islam -if u dont want then just dont-. i think its one of the most important points, why do they cover themselves: to keep eyes away from them, today all women insult themselves by exposing their bodies, wich'll cause them bad reputation, and will ruin families, wives would feel jealous, men would be cheating their wives after feeling desire, wives would feel ugly and unpleasing..etc. and how god gave women equal rights as the man. and a lot more.

[daliaalsaid1]

i am a muslim and i've already seen enough of those youtubers who post some really bad things about us. and now i think that there's this false copy of quran in america, wich says that we should lie to others, kill them..etc. that does make me feel bad, like we r the most hated religion on the whole earth. thanks god i've watched ur video, makes me feel better to know that at least some people dont trust the stereotype thing. may god bless u

[VekinHighwalker]

2 years...! What a waste, but at least, he's trained to make people laugh..! Peace

[VekinHighwalker]

Ha ha ha!!! Very good!! Bye,neph!!