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In reply to the discussion: Islamic State militant 'executes own mother' in Raqqa [View all]ancianita
(36,066 posts)meaningless in Christianity because the Old and New Testaments have at least ten or more modern translations by which people can differ -- which were taken from the Latin, which was taken from the Greek which was taken from the Aramaic, etc. You can get the Bible in your language, which might be a translation of the King James, or New International, etc.
In Islam, translation was forbidden by The Prophet. Only one/two officially authorized translations exist in the West today. If you're Muslim, you study the Qu'ran in Arabaic, period. Period. That language was the literal word of Allah, and no one may tamper with the unchangeable word of Allah. That is how it must be received, according to Islam and The Prophet. Thus, madrassas.
Literal word of Allah is waaay more consistent across continents than is the literal word of God.
Therein, according to reps from the Center for Islamic Studies, University of Chicago, lies the major difference about the bases of fundamentalism across these faiths.