It is ‘theologically-consistent’ for Muslims to want laws based on the Q’uran

Urg, minor pet peeve — the apostrophe comes after the “r” in Qur’an, or else should be left out entirely: Quran. For that matter, you can spell it Qoran or Qor’an or Kuran, Kur’an, Koran, Kor’an, Cor’an, etc. — but the apostrophe, if used, belongs right after the “r.” (The apostrophe stands for the Arabic hamzah, which indicates a “glottal stop” — as in Cockney pronunciation of “city” as ci’y. And the glottal stop comes right between the “r” and the “a” in Qur’an.)

Adherents of Islam who claim that the spellings Moslem and Koran and Mohamet are somehow less respectful than Muslim and Quran and Muhammad are (at best) revealing their own ignorance of just how arbitrary alphabet-to-alphabet transliteration actually is, or (at worst) are looking for an excuse to be offended.

Muslims, (right??), are not the first, last, or the middle at finding “an excuse to be offended”. Some of us gay folk make that exercise a life-long career. 🙂
Actually, most all of us “look for an excuse to be offended” … sort of a natural thing to do … but, quite dishonest and uncharitable. Really a very self-defeating behavior.
And, yes, Throbert, thanks for showing us the correct spelling for Arabic words and letters.

Adherents of Islam who claim that the spellings Moslem and Koran and Mohamet are somehow less respectful than Muslim and Quran and Muhammad are (at best) revealing their own ignorance of just how arbitrary alphabet-to-alphabet transliteration actually is, or (at worst) are looking for an excuse to be offended.

Muslims, (right??), are not the first, last, or the middle at finding “an excuse to be offended”. Some of us gay folk make that exercise a life-long career. 🙂
Actually, most all of us “look for an excuse to be offended” … sort of a natural thing to do … but, quite dishonest and uncharitable. Really a very self-defeating behavior.
And, yes, Throbert, thanks for showing us the correct spelling for Arabic words and letters.

For that matter, you can spell it Qoran or Qor’an or Kuran, Kur’an, Koran, Kor’an, Cor’an, etc.

Okay, one final comment and then I’m done with this digression about Arabic spelling, I swear!
I suppose that if you’re a professional or freelance writer producing text that’s going to be submitted to an editor for publication, then the name of the Islamic holy book should start with a “Q” — this is consistent with the fact that we write Qatar, Iraq, and Kuwait, but not Katar, Irak, and Quwait. By the same reasoning, the name of that dude from Libya should also start with a “Q”.
In other words, when written in Arabic, the first letter of Quran is the same as the last letter of Iraq and the first letters of Qatar and Qaddafi — but different from the first letter of Kuwait.
But this is purely about making things a little more easy and consistent for English-speaking copy editors and database clerks, and has nothing whatsoever to do with spelling the Arabic “more correctly,” nor with trying to “show polite respect” to other people’s religious faith.
Adherents of Islam who claim that the spellings Moslem and Koran and Mohamet are somehow less respectful than Muslim and Quran and Muhammad are (at best) revealing their own ignorance of just how arbitrary alphabet-to-alphabet transliteration actually is, or (at worst) are looking for an excuse to be offended.

It is ‘theologically-consistent’ for Muslims to want laws based on the Q’uran

Urg, minor pet peeve — the apostrophe comes after the “r” in Qur’an, or else should be left out entirely: Quran. For that matter, you can spell it Qoran or Qor’an or Kuran, Kur’an, Koran, Kor’an, Cor’an, etc. — but the apostrophe, if used, belongs right after the “r.” (The apostrophe stands for the Arabic hamzah, which indicates a “glottal stop” — as in Cockney pronunciation of “city” as ci’y. And the glottal stop comes right between the “r” and the “a” in Qur’an.)