Pranksters expose prejudices by reading from Bible disguised as Quran

 By 
Christopher Miller
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Dutch pranksters dressed a Bible up as a Quran and read particularly extreme passages from it to bystanders who thought they were listening to the messages of Islam.

The highlighted Bible verses recited in the social experiment stand in stark contrast to generally accepted Western values. "If you reject my commands and abhor my laws you will eat the flesh of your own sons ... and the flesh of your own daughters," read one of the passages.

Bystanders reacted with shock to the verses, and then again when they discovered where they really came from -- the Bible.

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