Quote of the Day, Andrew Sullivan blog, Feb 13

"We believe that among God's good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator," - from the Clergy Letter Project, in which hundreds of mainline Protestant denominations took stand against the rise of Christian fundamentalism.

The same applies, however, to Muslim fundamentalists. It seems to me that one of the most urgent tasks for theological departments in Western universities is to pioneer scholarly research into the origins of the Koran, to deepen our knnowledge of its origins, and shed the light of reason on the claims of Muslim fundamentalists.