This is a rather brilliant bit of trolling. As an experiment, these two men interviewed people on the street, reading them highlighted verses from the Qur’an (all of a particularly bloody-minded nature, lots of executing women, demanding obedience, and so on and so forth), and asking them for their responses to it, what it made them think about Islam and about Muslims, and how it compared to Christian norms.
Then they revealed that they had actually been reading from the Bible.
Since they pulled this in the Netherlands, people’s responses were mostly amusement and realizing that they had a number of prejudices that they weren’t aware of. I’m not sure what would happen if you tried to do this in the US, except for the general assumption that people would probably become violent, just sort of on principle.
Via Laura Gibbs
Heh, I could not have told them chapter and verse, but I could have told them the context. The hand-cutting is particularly memorable, as it refers to a woman who tries to interfere in a fight by grabbing a man’s genitals. I wonder exactly what occasion gave rise to that particular prohibition and its draconian punishment.
It really could do with some modernization.