This one time at band camp...

Alright, so it wasn't really at band camp. I never even went to band camp. Just this morning in my theology class my professor tried to hand one of our classmates a copy of the Qur'an, but he wouldn't take it from him with two hands. The professor grabbed his left wrist and extended his arm to try and hand him the holy book in his left hand, but the student wouldn't accept it. It turns out that part of the Muslim faith is that you don't hold the Qur'an with your left hand. I didn't really understand why, but evidently it is something impressed upon Muslims at a very young age. There are many seemingly silly rules in almost every religion that don't appear to have a real practical reason in today's world, but are still followed fervently by most of the religious of the world.