Re: Protesters attack author Nasreen…
Good. Now that you’ve expressed it, relax a bit 
Despite the fact that I love the Arabic in the Quran, please show me how many people on this forum use Arabic. Almost always they have used a translation and even fewer can back it up with their own knowledge of Arabic. So from a practical point of view, you are correct. Many people, even on this forum do have a certain denial, but this cannot be blamed on the Quranic message.
The beauty lies in the message… and a message is not confined to the boundary of a particular language. Yes, sometimes a word-for-word translation does tend to get you mixed up. Such as, if you translate “reaping rewards” (an idomatic expression) literally, even in English, you are conveying to the other party that you have to physically go to a field of rewards and reap them. There are similar statements in the Quran. I think it is better to provide a good all-encompassing translation, with an incentive to learn Arabic. Such as a word-for-word translation (that points back to the Arabic) coupled by proper translation. A lexicon or dictionary is good too.
Quite correct, and I think if we consider the Hebrew scripture, the collection of manuscripts (perhaps the actual manuscripts of the prophets) were in PaleoHebrew as well as South Arabia dialects (Zabur - it was a written script), and all of them were combined, along with other myths from Babylon and Canaan to form the Torah, that is in Modern Hebrew (500BC)… seems like a lot was “lost in translation”. It is hence important to have a manuscript in its original form so at least it can be used a a litmus test. Many words today from the Quran are translated incorrectly. For example, refer to this thread:
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=260433&page=2
There are internal litmus tests within the Quran itself that guide a person in extracting the correct meaning as well, so I have no doubt that a proper translation is the answer, along a record of the Arabic and the Qiraat and an incentive to learn it (but only if one chooses - not by force).
Another great point! Even more so is the dilemma for most muslims who do not understand that post-Islamic Arabic (classical: 8th century+) is different from pre-Islamic and para-Islamic Arabic.