Pine77 I wholly agree with you. I have read the Quran and it is indeed shocking. Our Nepali intellectuals and liberals, without even reading a single stanza from their book, make grand statements such as - "all religions are same. Not all muslims are fundamentalists etc." These are vacuous statements, too general to be useful, too idealistic to reflect an iota of the naked reality. One of my friends used to say,"There are two types of people. Man and mussalman." How correct it is. Muslims believe/must believe that only they are correct, all others are sinners. Let me pose a few questions to our so-called intellectuals as a challenge. The goal of muslims is to make the whole world muslim. Unless the whole world is not muslim, these people will keep fighting, killing, converting. Is there any other religion that is so stubbornly pursuing this goal? Muslims believe/must believe that only they are right and pure. All other religions are worthless, impure and sham. Muslims must convert or kill other non-muslims. The more they convert or kill a non-muslim, the more secured the heaven is for them. Is there any other religion that is so intolerant as this one? A pure muslim, in heaven is given wine and beautiful virgins (hoors) as his reward. He can enjoy the eternal sex and drinks. How can the ultimate reward of God be sex and booze? If a person changes even a comma from the Quran, he will be killed immediately. Muslims believe that the Quran was revealed by the God, even comma, semicolon was dictated by him. The punishment of modifying Quran is death. There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is the last prophet. Nobody can come after Mohammad. All human beings must follow and believe him. All other Gods are sham, only the Allah as described in the Quran is right. At judgment day, buried people will rise. Their deeds will be evaluated by Allah. Pure muslims will get drinks and girls, others will suffer in eternal hell. A non-muslim can not even step in their holy city of Mecca. Is there any religion which bars the whole city to its non-followers? In the hindu country of Nepal, they have been allowed to build mosque in the center of the Capital. Give me one example of a muslim country which has allowed non-muslims to build their place of worship in such prominent place. Now I challenge our intellectuals to prove these above statements wrong. I also challenge to find a single muslim school of thought which does not agree in these statements. For ALL MUSLIMS in the WORLD, these are ULTIMATE TRUTH. COMPROMISE IS IMPOSSIBLE. Show me a single sentence from the Quran acknowledging that other religions and people may be good and correct. Do not generalize without having knowledge in the rush for trying to pose as intellectual, rational, kind-hearted, liberal, and educated. Buddha said, "Find the truth yourself. Do not believe even in me." Quran says, "Only what I say is right. Kill all those who donot accept this." NOW YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT BUDHHA AND QURAN ARE SAME BECAUSE BOTH ARE RELIGIONS? GIMME A BREAK!