freediver wrote on Mar 20
th, 2019 at 7:04pm:
When I came across some surveys from around the world of what Muslims actually think you refused to believe it, trying to make up reasons why they do not really mean what they say they mean. Hence, you are an apologist for the vast majority of Muslims, but you certainly do not speak for them. You change what they say, you change what the Quran says, etc. You struggle to even speak for yourself most of the time.
Those inane pew survey debates we had were over hudud law FD, in particularly death for apostasy and stoning for adultery. None of these things are even in the Quran. Indeed in regards the former, the Quran clearly and explicitly commands the exact opposite (2:256 and 18:29). So its not exactly relevant to your claim to know what "the vast majority" muslims think
about the Quran. And in fact everything else in those pew surveys that did have some relevancy to what we are talking about (eg rejection of terrorism), you refused to discuss them - and deflected every time to focusing on cuddly Malaysia and its apparent support for hudud law.
So whats the score now - regarding your extensive experience on what the "vast majority of muslims believe" about the Quran? So far we have 2 or 3 pretty extreme muslims on an internet forum, and cherry picking a pew survey that didn't even discus what the Quran said.
I can only reiterate my previous point that I would venture that I speak to more everyday normal muslims in one day than you have in your entire life. And you continue to sit there with a straight face and tell me its you, not me, who understands the belief of the "vast majority" of muslims.
Credibility much?
I was not saying they were in the Quran. I was saying you do not speak for Muslims. You apologise for, and misrepresent them. The Pew surveys are a classic example. You could not get a clearer example of the "vast majority" speaking clearly for themselves, but you till manage to twist it into the opposite of what they say.