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>>>Actually swear on Koran not a muslim treatment. It's forbidden for muslims. A muslim only swear on Allah. But a few muslim know that.
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>>Metin.
>>I can agree with that. After all the Koran is just collection of writings and can be reproduced easily. But Allah/God is... well God.
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>Yes, you got the issue... :)
hmmmm. actually it was a stupid question on my part.
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>>But why were there such anger in the Muslim community when there was that report of US soldiers "mistreating" one book of Koran?
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>A flag is only a few tatters, but if you mistreate a flag, it become an insult for a countries symbol. These are same things. US soldiers insulted to islam.
Well yes there are relatively few that get upset about it, but they don't cause death over it.
Anyway, it just seems silly for people to get angry about something that really doesn't matter in the big picture of things.
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