Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.

Very few people can afford to be poor.