Religion Never did I feel an urge to read the Quran until three things happened one after the other a few weeks back. One: a Muslim friend, whom I came to know years ago through blogging, said he had never read the Quran because he found it “boring.” I was amused, but not surprised because this friend’s wife was a Hindu and so his religious sentiments were, in all reasonable probability, not quite strident, let alone militant. The second thing that happened within hours of the above Muslim friend’s confession was another friend’s – a Christian, this time – claim that he had read the whole of Quran and that he found hatred spilling out of “every page” of it. “Every page?” I was incredulous. “Well, almost,” he edited his statement rather reluctantly. And a day after the above two came the third and the most amusing incident. A female Muslim blogger-acquaintance sent me a friend request on Facebook which I accepted without my usual hesitation merely because I knew her as a fellow-bl...
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