"God is not Great "

"God is not Great " is a book which challenges the metaphysical foundations of religion by arguing that it comes from a period of human prehistory when there was a great deal of ignorance about the nature
and origin of the universe and that it is a feeble attempt to meet the demand for knowledge.

The author states that the metaphysical claims of religion are false- it is positively immoral and challenges its original precepts including the presentation of a false picture of the world to the innocent ; the doctrine of blood sacrifice ; the doctrine of atonement ;the doctrine of eternal reward and/ or punishment and the imposition of impossible tasks and rules.

He points out that religion is no longer relevant because thanks to scientific progress it no longer offers an explanation of anything important .

He argues that The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths The doings and “sayings” of Moses and Abraham and Jesus being so ill-founded and so inconsistent, as well as so often immoral, one must proceed in the same spirit of inquiry to what many believe is the last revelation: that of the Prophet Muhammad and his Koran or “recitation.”

Here again, the Angel (or Archangel) Gabriel is found at work, dictating suras, or verses, to a person of little or no learning. Here again are stories of a Noah-like flood, and injunctions against idol worship. Here again the
Jews are the first recipients of the message and the first both to hear it and to discard it.
And here again there is a vast commentary of doubtful anecdote about the actual doings and sayings of the Prophet, this time known as the hadith.

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world’s monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also. Its founding narrative likewise takes place within an astonishingly small compass, and relates facts about extremely tedious local quarrels. None of the original documents, such as they are, can be contrasted with any Hebrew or Greek or Latin texts.

Almost all of the tradition is oral, and all of it is in Arabic. Indeed, many authorities agree that the Koran is only intelligible in that tongue, which is itself subject to innumerable idiomatic and regional inflections.

Some Islamic scholars argue the koran is only intelligible in its original revealed text. A translation can never be the Koran, that inimitable symphony, ‘the very sound of which moves men and women to tears.’ A translation can only be an attempt to give the barest suggestion of the meaning of words contained in the Koran.

This is why all Muslims, whatever their mother tongue, always recite the Koran in its original Arabic,they argue

All religions take care to silence or to execute those who question them (and the author chooses to regard this recurrent tendency as a sign of their weakness rather than their strength). It has, however, been some time since Judaism and Christianity resorted openly to torture and censorship.

Not only did Islam begin by condemning all doubters to eternal fire, but it still claims the right to do so in almost all of its dominions, and still preaches that these same dominions can and must be extended by war. There has never been an attempt in any age to challenge this
Hitchens, Christopher (2011-11-01). God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Atlantic Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.Amazon.com