Christian and Muslim team up to make new Qur'an

Religious violence, terrorism and tension is probably at its highest, right now, thanks to ISIS and others.

In spite of this, a Christian and Muslim have decided to team up and produce a new version of the Qur'an.

According to Christian Today, the project, which is a translation of the seventh century Islamic holy book, is as a result of the similarity between over 3,000 verses in both the Bible and the Qur'an.

During The Church Boys podcast, the translators said they hoped this unlikely alliance, and the new Islamic Holy Book would start an "open discussion".

The Muslim, Dr Safi Kaskas, said his desire is for the project to stop the religious war between Christians and Muslims in America.

"When I first came to the United States, if it wasn't for my American neighbors opening their hearts and their homes for me, I wouldn't have made it. I feel a debt to this country.

I hate to see that the same Americans are feeling bad about Muslims now. I want to repair this relationship.

The best way to do this is from our holy books," he added.

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For Dr David Hungerford, a Christian orthopedic surgeon, he wants the new version to stop ignorance amongst his fellow believers.

"What our hope is is that Christians will read it and the eyes of their misunderstanding and the depth of their ignorance will be dispelled so they can now look upon Muslims as part of the Abrahamic tradition.

If you look at religion, there has never been a time in mankind where somebody who professes religion has not taken aspects of it out of context and distorted its meaning. If we look at Christianity, Christianity was used to justify the Inquisition, burning witches, slavery", he said.

This new version, "The Qur'an With References to the Bible", contains Qur'anic verses and Bible verses at the end of each page, that make reference to the Islamic text above.

What do you think about this?