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2004-12-08 Terror Networks & Islam

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Posted by mhw 2004-12-08 8:47:48 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This guy is so dead. Is he in hiding yet?

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-12-08 9:41:34 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-12-08 9:41:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 that's why he's using a hotmail account ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-08 9:58:51 AM|| 2004-12-08 9:58:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I should have also pointed to some of this early research

see: http://www.geocities.com/freethoughtmecca/quranmulti.html

In mid 20th century, Cook and Crone came to this conclusion,

"..[The Qur'an] is strikingly lacking in overall structure, frequently obscure and inconsequential in both language and content, perfunctory in its linking of disparate materials, and given to the repetition of whole passages in variant versions. On this basis it can plausibly be argued that the book is the product of belated and imperfect editing of materials from a plurality of traditions..."

Posted by mhw 2004-12-08 10:10:40 AM|| 2004-12-08 10:10:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Dan Rather sez Muhammad wrote it and he has the memo's to prove it!

Posted by Steve 2004-12-08 10:40:54 AM|| 2004-12-08 10:40:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee, y'mean the whole thing could be a crock? Color me shocked! Who'da thunkit?

Posted by mojo 2004-12-08 10:42:16 AM|| 2004-12-08 10:42:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 There's a good in-depth study (including this topic) at: http://www.studytoanswer.net/islam_myths.html

Sorry, I couldn't get the href tag to work.

Posted by Xbalanke 2004-12-08 12:58:05 PM|| 2004-12-08 12:58:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Xbalanke - Prolly using FireFox - I'm trying it out - and the buttons don't work in it. I'm tempted to look at the JS code to figure out why, but I hate JS so I haven't motivated myself, yet. Gotten lazy in my old age, heh.

Mr Badanov, our resident 'Nix lover prolly loves this JS shit I'll bet... go to it bad!

Posted by .com 2004-12-08 1:09:26 PM|| 2004-12-08 1:09:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 .com: bingo - I am using FF. While I am a geek, I'm not a Java-anything geek, so I'll leave the JS debugging alone. I'll just add them manually in the future (making sure to close them!).

Posted by Xbalanke 2004-12-08 2:01:14 PM|| 2004-12-08 2:01:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Xb - I just took a peek a minute ago and see nothing obvious - looks clean (heh, Fred wrote it so I knew it would!) - must be the FF implementation of the Doc object or the JS engine FF 1.0 uses.

So, bad baby, whaddya say?

Posted by .com 2004-12-08 2:05:55 PM|| 2004-12-08 2:05:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Fred knows about the button -FF glitch, but sez it's a FF issue

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-08 2:06:21 PM|| 2004-12-08 2:06:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 And he doesn't want to clutter his code up with all sorts of browser identification and work-around JS to make this one tiny little segment of RBdom happy? Why, uh, how sensible!

Posted by .com 2004-12-08 2:10:07 PM|| 2004-12-08 2:10:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks for the info, gents. I know from painful experience that platform inconsistencies are a b**ch. I certainly wouldn't expect Fred to do a work-around, but I'll still use FF since I'm ornery like that.

Reminds me of an online poll of browser users that had options along the lines of (I'm paraphrasing from memory):

A) MS IE - resistance is futile; you will be assimilated.
B) AOL - something snarky about the IQ of AOLies.
...
E) Opera - 0.04% of the population can't be all wrong.

BTW - I used Opera at the time.

Posted by Xbalanke 2004-12-08 2:49:16 PM|| 2004-12-08 2:49:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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