Muslims Recoil at a French Proposal to Change the Quran

A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21—signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls—made a shocking demand. Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that “the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,” so that “no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.”

The basic notion of a government telling a religion what to believe? Ha. The idea of a western government successfully petitioning Muslim leaders to change the book that they think is the actual unalterable word of what they think of as a god?

Best o’luck, France.