All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVIII

[GethN7]

Is it just me, or does this edit to The Qur'an/YMMV by our old friend HLIAA14YOG read as dismissive and borderline disrespectful of the work and Muslims in general?  I know it's a YMMV page, but it seems to me that HLIAA14YOG is trying to get away with returning to some of his past bad behavior by recasting it as YMMV stuff.

The meat of it isn't wrong per se. As a historian, I can verify Islam has a lot of internal schisms over interpretations (earliest goes back to Sunni/Shi'a split) and unlike Cathlocism, which runs most interpretations through the central clearinghouse at Rome, Islam is far more regional and depends far more on the authority of the imam/mullah and their take on how it applies IRL.

Only part I'd disagree on is the last part. Islam, while it does effectively retcon the Bible and Torah, it's largely it's own thing, it just says Jews and Christians got a distorted version of the actual truth more or less for where there is overlap, and the Islamic take is quite different from the former two.

I've made my own edit here:

https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?tit...id=2028898

I would suggest we at least warn the editor in question to leave edit notices on the basic thrust of their contentious YMMVs to avoid future incidents at the very least.