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Originally Posted by ianch99
There is an important point here: the religion of Islam specifically lends itself able to be misrepresented by zealots. The Koran and the Hadith that follows it claim to be the "revealed truth of God" and as such are immutable. The ability of the modern day followers of religions to interpret the holy books is key to being able to defuse and invalidate the attempt to transpose the rules & edicts from 2000 years ago to today's societies.
Even fundamentalist Christians do not try and impose the many capital offense Old Testament laws today whereas the Islamists do exactly this because, and here's the distinction, the Koran is the last revealed truth of God as such cannot be changed.
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There are plenty of fundamentalist Christians who try to apply as much of the Old Testament as they can get away with to modern life, believe me.
The difference in interpretive method isn’t due to Muslims holding the Qu’ran to be the “Last Testament”; Christians hold the New Testament also to be the “Last Testament”.
The difference in interpretive practice between Muslims and most Christians is most likely due to the fact that the New Testament claims to be the writing of people who were inspired by God, whereas the earliest Muslim leaders claimed the Qu’ran was actually dictated to Mohammed by God. (This is also why many of them won’t read it in anything other than its original language, Arabic, whereas Christians are content to translate the Bible out of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into whatever language they require).