I have read through the rest, but just wanted to make a quick comment on this. Your analysis of history according to religion is faulty as is your explanation of penalty of questioning it. I mainly come at this in terms of this being a generality. Yes Christians in general argue constantly about history, as it is very foggy on what happened really, what was fluffed up, and what was changed later. Judaism, depends on the denomination as to how accurate they intend to keep their history, but there are known gaps as for years and complete history (in the Abrahamic tradition the idea is that the History started with the beginning of the earth, which is a long time to keep all the written records accurate). In Islam, A lot of events were recorded and details maintained (from an Islamic standpoint this is understandable that we could get this right, as we are what we believe as the last people of the Abrahamic faiths (yes I know Bahai claim that as well)). There are scholars looking through these books all the time and questioning every detail that is not exactly the same as the rest. I've never heard a claim of blasphemy for questioning the historical events (be it straight history or Hadiths). I've also never seen anyone chastised for questioning accuracy in anything except the Quran. You may or may not be familiar with the records kept on the Quranic history, distribution, etc. But I can assure you if it was written someone has questioned it, and those questioners, and the answers received are recorded as well. I'm not getting into this too deep hopefully as my main point is that in talking about this you bring points of contention which can easily be denied. Also, Generalizations lead usually to an answer that must be long winded to explain that while some people might be doing this, not all are. The issues of contention, you have to choose what to take from my explanation (if anything) and if necessary, ask for follow up questions. By not assuming you are not on a ANTI-Islam campaign, I can explain these issues as if they were your opinion/misunderstanding and not your argument (which would be baseless obviously as no evidence was brought with it).
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