– By Abdullah Gondal (Former Islamist)

If I claim today that God gave me a book which is the best guidance for humanity. In that book it is mentioned that wife beating is permissible, women’s testimony is half of men, slavery and sex slavery is good, shooting stars are missiles thrown at Satan, women need to cover up only exposing their face and hands, all non believers are stupid idiot loser dogs and animals that will burn in hell forever, dead bodies come back to life just by throwing a piece of steak on it (surah baqarah verse 67 to 73), people in the past were turned into pigs and monkeys for fishing on a Sunday, Angels and Demons are real and all around us, the moon was split in half, earthquakes and tornadoes are a result of our sins….

People will laugh at it. They will say these are primitive archaic ideas. These are myths. The author of the book is delusional.

Yet when the exact same claim is made 14 centuries ago, these same deplorable ideas become full of wisdom and revered by billions as the literal word of God.

Don’t you see something wrong here?