A Da’ee’s Perspective on Violence in the Qur’an and Bible.
A Da’ee’s Perspective on Violence in the Qur’an and Bible. A recent computer analysis of the Bible and Qur’an has been making waves on social media. OdinText, developers of analytics software, recently announced results from a comparative analysis of the Qur’an and the Old and New Testaments using the latest data mining technology. The aim, according to the researcher, was to uncover with as little bias as possible the extent to which the content of any of these texts is more violent than that of the others. Their inspiration was pundits’ claims that the rise of terrorism connected with Islamic fundamentalism reflects something inherently and distinctly violent about Islam compared to other major religions. Tom Anderson, CEO of OdinText, states: “Obviously, to understand any religion one must start with its literature. So, we thought it would be an interesting exercise to compare the primary books of Islam and Judeo-Christianity—arguably the core of their philosophies and tenets—using ...