how does one 'follow quran' ??? I read the Koran as a young woman. It was before I knew much at all about islam and having read it ----did not know Islamic law or what muslim preachers seem to call "SUNNAH" ---which seems to mean something like----
'normative behavior' Can you provide some examples of "real muslims"
young non-Muslim woman finds Qur'an interesting to read...

what examples do you need? I worked hand to hand with these bearded guys but I doubt you know them... they live without meat and alcohol, some of them are even sXe vegetarians
I have worked and socialized with many many muslims-----and never encountered a vegetarian
amongst them. In fact some of my Pakistani
colleagues liked to mock hindus for not eating meat.
Why do you even mention vegetarianism? NO MEAT? I have known muslims who killed their
own chickens-----are you referring to the fact that some muslims do not eat meat that is not killed by
a muslim? Why do you mention alcohol? Is that
it? A "real muslim" does not drink. Of the many
muslims I have encountered----a few did not drink.
I am quite sure that Osama bin ladin did not drink
based on information I read about him.
As to reading the Koran-----as a young woman,
I read just about anything that came into my hands.
The hindu GITA is far better. (in my youth --the
Kama Sudtra was the popular book----as an example
of fine literature, it does not come close to the Gita--or the Bible ----but even that one exceeds the Koran)