Critiques of the Koran - history and transmission, errors, contradictions, violence and more.
Many Americans jeered at reports that soldiers had deliberately mishandled and mistreated copies of the Qur'an in front of Muslim prisoners. They regarded Muslim reactions is trivial and ridiculous - after all, who cares if someone deliberately drops a Bible? Well, the Qur'an is not simply the 'Muslim bible' and Americans' reactions here betray a profound failure to understand Islam.
"...Muhammad was accustomed to stating something to his followers with the claim that it was revealed to him through the angel Gabriel, then later (maybe after a few hours), he would tell them that God had invalidated it."
Commentary on the first Surah of the Koran.
A Christian site devoted to cricisms of the Quran argues that it contains mythical sections and silly events.
Internal inconsistencies and contradictions.
"I hope I have shown that the text of the Quran has not been transmitted perfectly , despite attempts by Muslims to destroy all variant copies. "
"The Quran is a product of its time. It is a product of a human being. Its scope is limited to what Muhammad knew and had been taught. It is not a revelation from God. "
How the Koran has been changed in history and some parts of it lost.
Linguistic problems in reading the Koran and basic errors of grammar.
Online copies of sacred Islamic texts
Three basic errors of science found in the Qur'an.
An explanation of attempts to censor critiques of Islam.
"Researchers with a variety of academic and theological interests are proposing controversial theories about the Koran and Islamic history, and are striving to reinterpret Islam for the modern world. This is, as one scholar puts it, a "sensitive business.""
