Steven

Naughty, naughty boy you only included Grateful; Philo believes in the same religious foundation shared by Jews, Christians and Islamists - the Old Testament - where most of the "divine comedy" starts.

Not going to let you wiggle off this hook - the topic is about "fundamentalism" not just Islam.

PS

I don't know any fundamentalist anybody - just the ones I encounter here at OLO.

Severin

There are many paths to the DIVINE COMEDIAN.

I have found one path. You have found another. The important thing is that we both found the glorious, the one and only DIVINE COMEDIAN.

Let the joyous laughter commence as we both appreciate the COSMIC JOKE.

You are indeed a schmoozer.

I like that.

Grateful asked, “David do you know of an explanation for the Qur'an other than it being Divine revelation?”

Dear grateful,

One obvious explanation is that a human or humans wrote it without divine intervention in the same way as scriptures of other religions for which believers claim divine intervention have been written.

I have read parts of it and have even discussed it with Muslims. I sat in at a service in the West End mosque in Brisbane and was invited to join a group in discussing a bit from the Qur'an after the Muslims (all men) prayed.

You seem no different from the believers of other religions. Most believers in any religion have selected that religion because the sperm and egg whose union engendered them were produced by individuals who accepted that religion.

Are you an exception? Were you the child of non-Muslims and having examined many religions decided that Islam is the true one and others were false? What religions besides Islam have you examined? If you have why did decide those religion(s) were false?

<<Grateful, you are a true and faithful servant of the DIVINE COMEDIAN.>>

Steven you are way too clever for me!

By the way, you remind me of my cousins who also happen to be Jewish and atheist.

take care :-)

Grateful,

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the difference between Christianity and Islam.

Christians say if I reject Jesus I'll go to hell but come and have a barbeque with us. But if I reject Islam Muslims want to barbeque me.

See:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/309925/june-01-2010/ayaan-hirsi-ali

Whatever may have been the case in the past, that puts it in a nutshell today, 2010.