re: Is the Koran or Quran taken out of context ?

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I've just never even heard the assertion that Muslims redacted violent passages from the Qur'an for translation into English.

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I didn't either until 3 years ago. But you have to remember that all religious texts were edited. What we call 'The Bible' is a collection of writings that have had books thrown in and books thrown out for thousands of years. That includes Old and New Testaments.
My most recent favorite is Lilith. She goes back to 4,000 BC with the Sumerians. She is the ultimate evil bitch who is later blamed for random illness in the Dark Ages. The Torah mentions her once saying she would be comfortable living in a cursed waste land. I've met women like that.