Morality Does Not Come from Holy Books. It Comes from Us.

Drima Abu Hamdan writes in the Sudanese Thinker:

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In both cases, Ahmad(a suicide bomber) and Muhammad(imaginary forgiving character) did not derive their morality from the Quran.
Their ethical intuitions came from within themselves.
Their ethical institutions directed their attention to verses they chose to focus on and be inspired by, whether knowingly or uknowingly.
Their ethical intuitions influenced their choice of interpretation.
And hence, their morals did not come from the Quran itself.
Their morals ultimately came from within themselves thanks to their own ethical intuitions about what’s right and wrong, and were influenced by their near social context.