Essentially, the speaker notes that the Koran is a far more nuanced document than either the fundamentalists or the islamophobes would imply, and that you really cannot understand it in translation.

Certainly that is my experience with the study of Torah, where I really don’t think that I can claim to have ever even read it, since with my pathetic grasp of Hebrew, I do not know more than a smattering of words and a few greetings.

In any case, listening to Lesley Hazelton is a good way to spend 9 minutes.

H/t Yves Smith.