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I've never read the bible, but I passed the midterm in my Islam course, so I'm going to pretend I'm an authority on religion.
Parts of the Qur'an say things to the effect of "do good and prohibit evil". Other parts of the Qur'an list prohibited sexual acts. Fornication and homosexuality are up there, as I understand it (two minutes of checking the indexes of my Qur'an and textbook didn't turn up anything, but I'm pretty sure) and there are lengthy passages about who you can marry. It's easy to say "Islam says putting your wee-wee in some other guy's bum is bad", and not much harder to continue with "so I'm not going to let you". I gather the same goes for Christianity, what with how much noise some people are making. It seems like most of the trouble comes from nobody being willing to say "my religion forbids homosexuality" right out. What would happen, I wonder, if they did?
It's sort of funny to study a distinctly nonsecular religion, where the guidelines set forth in the Qur'an and the prophet's sunna (sayings/actions/way of living) are applied to every aspect of life. I read about guidelines for marriage, then turn around and see people trying similar things in my own culture. The terrorism scare aside, it seems like some people would be happier as a Muslim.
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