A poster boy of India's right-wing parties aims to placate the political forces by raising uninformed criticism of the holy text. In an act of political buffoonery, Waseem Rizvi, the former chairman of the Shia Waqf Board in the north Indian State of Uttar Pradesh, called for the removal of “26 verses” of violence from the Quran, a historical text that serves as the sacred canon for a community of ...