@ Naomi - It was an interesting link, thanks.
@ Keyplus. This seems to be the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card to me, this tactic you are using.
In another thread, you claimed (I am paraphrasing here, rather than quoting you directly) words to the effect that the 9/11 terrorists were not muslim, because the muslim religion did not endorse such actions, and therefore by taking such actions, they had become non-muslim.
Now you are using the same tactic for the Koran. Islamic scholars have for a very long time claimed - boasted even - that the Koran represents the eternal and unchanging word of god - so finding manuscripts with typographical or editorial differences would actually belay that comment. So, one could well find a koran with textual differences; It may well be possible to find different versions - I am not a scholar of religious bibliography.
All this becomes a problem to a religion sensitive to insult and rabid in its perception of insult and blasphemy toward Mohammed.You might have been asked this before Keyplus, but I do not recall your answer. And honestly, I hate to keep asking people to condemn or rebut the worst excesses of people claiming to act in the name of that faith, but it would provide a baseline of what you, a devout and enthusiastic muslim living in the UK, regard as acceptable and appropriate responses to slights or insults to your faith....
Do you or did you agree with the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie, for his hints and comments contained within his book "The Satanic Verses" that the Koran might contain text derived from Satan?
Do you or did you agree with the outcry against the cartoons, published in Denmark and elsewhere, which subsequently lead to a failed attempt to murder the illustrator of the cartoons by a muslim? For instance, the street protests in London, where the faithful were calling for heads to be chopped off?
There are quite a few other instances where those professing a muslim faith have become enraged to the extent of riot and mayhem and murder threats and worse at a perceived slight or insult to the koran or mohammed - Do you think that is a healthy and acceptable and appropriate response by a grown up, dignified and allegedly peace-loving religion?
I really do look forward mightily to the day when muslim faithheads transform into your kind of semi-detached CoE or anglican believer - worshipping a god, but tolerant of others beliefs or lack of them. Willing to accept apostasy with a shrug of the shoulders rather than shunning or death threats. Accepting insults toward their prophet or their holy text with good humour rather than fatwahs.