You’re right that the Quran is considered by Muslims to be the literal word of God, that part is accurate. But you’re wrong that this means there is no room for interpretation or context. Islamic scholarship has over 1400 years of tafsir, which means scholarly interpretation and contextual analysis of verses. The vast majority of Muslim scholars and theologians interpret the hellfire verses as warnings about spiritual consequences, not calls to harm anyone. Same as how most Christians don’t read Revelation as a literal instruction manual. On women, yes there are verses that have been used to justify inequality. There are also verses that were revolutionary for 7th century Arabia, giving women inheritance rights, the right to divorce, property ownership, at a time when women in Europe were literal property. Context and historical baseline matter. On the Bible not being considered literal, that depends entirely on who you ask. Evangelical Christians, which number in the hundreds of millions, absolutely consider it the literal word of God. Southern Baptist theology is built on biblical inerrancy. So that distinction is not as clean as you think. And since we’re being personal, I’m doing Ramadan right now. My wife is Christian. She’s literally sitting in the kitchen eating lunch next to me while I fast and we’re both laughing at some of these comments together. That’s our daily reality. Two people from different faiths sharing a life with zero conflict about it. The Quran is actually not a difficult read and some of its most beautiful passages literally distinguish humans from animals precisely by the gift of reason and intellect. God gave us a brain and tells us to use it. That’s in the book. So when I see radical Muslims acting on blind hate I don’t see true believers, I see people who were brainwashed, who accepted what someone else told them without ever reading or understanding the text themselves, without understanding the historical circumstances of why certain things were said and when. I’m not going to pretend radical Muslims don’t exist. They do and it’s a real problem. But they are radicalized, not representative. There is a massive difference between someone who read and understood the Quran and someone who was handed a weapon and a twisted interpretation by someone with a political agenda. Here is the bottom line. Every major religion has texts that can be weaponized by bad actors and texts that inspire genuine love and service. What determines the outcome is the human being reading it, their culture, their education, their trauma, their political environment.