and i would blog the entire quran, but fortunately for myself, i’d rather do something more constructive than spend more time than i already do online! lol

Well, if it does open for comments, I will tell everyone here. It might be worth the effort to flood a Christian blogsite that trashes Islam with a few dozen opinionated atheists. You want some fireworks?

95% of his analysis was based on the last half of the 7th verse of the first Surah – the prayer that Allah not show the straight path to those who have earned His anger nor those who have gone astray (ie the Jews and the Christians). No mention of the origins, the poetry, any analysis of the first 6 verses, or anything else really.. just that Islam does not look kindly on Jews or Christians and America had better be very afraid.

Oh well, I was hoping for something more well-rounded.

With that said, I read a few articles on Plotz’ Blogging the Bible series, and found that a real snoozer. I am no scholar, but i know enough about the Bible that if I were to read a blog on it, it would be by someone who has some insights into it that I could benefit and learn from. I still enjoy reading and learning from it, and I appreciate the Bible for what it is. I would like to try and read the Quran with that approch also, but it looks like Spencer has other agendas in mind.

I guess Spencer’s Blogging the Quran series is more for Western Christians itching for a fight than for Agnostics/Atheists wanting to learn more about where their faiths really came from. That is what I got out of it anyway.

Maybe salahudin could do his own Blogging the Quran series?

Oh well, Surah Al-Baqara (The Cow) is this Sunday and I will again read along with Spencer. Let’s hope for the best.

David Plotz was, as a relatviely unobservant Jew, undergoing a genuine learning experience. Spencer comes to the Qu’ran as one who has written extensively, and unfortunately, rabidly on his already negative interpretation of the Qu’ran. He consistently looks for the worst possible interpretation.

It would be far more interesting for an intelligent informed non-observant Muslim, unfamiliar with the text to approach the Qu’ran and give us his (or her) interpretation (which would be more equivalent to the Plotz blog) than to get Spencer’s opinion – especially as he is an aoplogist for the Crusades and Catholic extremist.

All I’ll say is that my knowledge of Islam exceeds the common Muslims’ understanding.

In fact, let me point you to a nice article to read:

http://towelianism.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/islam-muslims-the-world-a-brief-paradigmatic-analysis/