British Lord Want Qur’an Banned

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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 00:00

Britain's Lord Christopher Monckton urged a ban on the Noble Qur'an.

LONDON – Britain's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former adviser to the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has urged the US Congress to ban passages of the Muslims’ holy book, the Qur’an, and to make reading them aloud illegal.

“Nearly all acts of terrorism perpetrated throughout the world in the past quarter of a century were carried out by Muslims in the name of Allah,” Brenchley falsely claimed in his latest column for website World Net Daily, Raw Story website reported.

“One does not need to look any further than their “holy” book, the [Qur'an].

“Craven public authorities have failed to act against the circulation of the [Qur'an] in its present form because they fear a violent backlash,” he added.

According to Raw Story, Monckton also urged the banning of portions of the Qur'an that he wrongly interprets to be a call for violence against nonbelievers, saying the rights of free speech are ‘outweighed by the need to stop incitement’.

“A bill should be brought before Congress identifying all passages in the [Qur'an] which, whether in isolation or taken together, constitute incitement to murder,” he proposed.

He went on the say: “The bill should specify that anyone who reads any of these passages out loud is to be charged with that crime and, if convicted, subjected to the usual penalty for it –- a long prison term.”

The Qur’an is a revelation from God, the creator of the worlds, so He is the original author.

There is only one Qur’an which is in Arabic and many translations of the Qur’an in several languages.

There could be multiple translations by different authors in the same language such as English.

The Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through the archangel Gabriel who used to make the Prophet memorize the Qur’an and made him revise it every year in the month of Ramadan, the fasting month.

Unfortunately, some people wrongly accuse Islam of teaching violence based on an improper understanding of a few verses of the Quran that were actually addressed to a specific group of people, with a specific historical background.