Woman Died After Muslim Nurse Refused To Help

[cybrsage]

I find your premise that most followers of a religion do not know what is in their holy books suspect.

Less than 10% of Professed Christians have read the entire Bible!

http://healtheland.wordpress.com/20...fessed-christians-have-read-the-entire-bible/

Though admittedly I cannot find the study showing this info. It is about right, though, for if you go around asking Christians if they have read the entire Bible you will find most will say No. They rely on their preacher to tell them what it says and means.

You will find the same results amongst Jews and Muslims - they rely on their religious leaders to tell them what it says and means.

Data on Muslims reading the Quran is hard to find, but if we use literacy rates in the Middle East (since most Muslims are there) we can make some conjecture about it. Obviously, if you cannot read at all, you cannot read your holy book. The highest illiteracy is found in Afghanistan at 72%. Most Middle Eastern nations being slightly under 20% illiteracy (meaning slightly over 80% literacy).
http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/a/me090425b.htm

If everyone who was literate read their holy books the entire way through, that would make 4 out of 5 of them having read their own holy books. Since we know that certainly cannot be the case, we know it has to be less than that. If we use the other religions as a guide, we can at least say that only half of them have read their holy books the entire way through. If we use medieval europe as a guide to how modern day islamic nations might be (due to the power of the Catholic church and the lack of power of the general population), it would put the number of people who have read the Quran the entire way through to a far lower number.


The biggest problem with reading the Quran is that you MUST read the entire thing through in order to actually know what the rules are. There is the doctrine of abrogation involved - which means Mohammed would change the rules as the Quran was being written. Alcohol was initially banned, but later on allowed. If you only read the beginning of the Quran, you will not know the rule was changed in the same book.

 

[Orignal Earl]

http://healtheland.wordpress.com/20...fessed-christians-have-read-the-entire-bible/

Though admittedly I cannot find the study showing this info. It is about right, though, for if you go around asking Christians if they have read the entire Bible you will find most will say No. They rely on their preacher to tell them what it says and means.

You will find the same results amongst Jews and Muslims - they rely on their religious leaders to tell them what it says and means.

Data on Muslims reading the Quran is hard to find, but if we use literacy rates in the Middle East (since most Muslims are there) we can make some conjecture about it. Obviously, if you cannot read at all, you cannot read your holy book. The highest literacy is found in Afghanistan at 72%. After that it plunges to the only 50% in Pakistan, with most Middle Eastern nations being below 20% literacy. This means that most Muslims are incapable of reading and therefor cannot read their holy books even if they wanted to do so (though if the desire was strong enough, they would learn to read for the sole reason of reading what their god said they must do).

http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/a/me090425b.htm

Are you sure your reading those Illiteracy rates right?

The way I read it.. by far most Muslims can read

 

[jackstar7]

Are you sure your reading those Illiteracy rates right?

The way I read it.. by far most Muslims can read

I don't know... maybe only 3% of people in Israel can read...

We need to be balanced and fair about this analysis, and now I've heard it both ways.

 

[cybrsage]

Are you sure your reading those Illiteracy rates right?

The way I read it.. by far most Muslims can read

AH, my bad, I did read it backwards. Double negatives and all that. I will amend my previuos post.

 

[Orignal Earl]

AH, my bad, I did read it backwards. Double negatives and all that. I will amend my previuos post.

You read the stats backwards because of double negatives?
What?
lol

 

[cybrsage]

You read the stats backwards because of double negatives?
What?
lol

Not hard to figure out. I was talking about literacy. A chart was read which talks about not-literate. The numbers were, of course, for not-literate and I misread them into being literate since that was what my search in google was about. Thus, I was talking about not-not-literate, which is a double negative and becomes confusing.

Hope this helped with your understanding.

 

[her209]

Interesting...

 

[Incorruptible]

Its time to finally end this policy of multiculturalism. Look at all the trouble it brings

 

[WelshBloke]

Its time to finally end this policy of multiculturalism. Look at all the trouble it brings

How the fucks that going to work then?

 

[cybrsage]

Interesting...

Holy Necro, batman!

 

[Incorruptible]

How the fucks that going to work then?

End the POLCIY. Stop letting in immigrants/refugees with no education who are going to clog up the welfare system, if they go on welfare kick them out, no special housing. Require immigrants to be adopt British values otherwise kick them out.