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2006-01-10 Home Front: WoT

I got my free Koran the other day and it is .....

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Posted by Brett 2006-01-10 17:20|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I got a free Qur'an from CAIR too (shortly before I moved far far away, that is). I was stunned at the weight and quality too -- $55 at Amazon.

Much depends on the translator -- Muhammad Asad's is the one CAIR sends out. I'd heard that it's an especially anti-Jewish version, so I did a little digging.

Very interesting. Asad was born Leopold Weiss in 1900 in the Austrian Empire. Son of a long line of rabbis, he studied in Vienna around the same time Hitler did. A fierce opponent of Zionism, he spent the rest of the 1920s in Jerusalem and the Middle East, where he fell in love with Mohammedans and converted.

As I understand it, Mo's magical journey was from Mecca to Jerusalem. He supposedly made the trip (of several hundred miles, obviously) in one night. Mo & Co. initially prayed in the direction of Jerusalem, since he was trying to build his own prophethood on the legitimacy of existing religions, i.e., Christianity and Judaism.

Anyway, at some point he said f*ck it and decided Mecca was the holiest place in Islam, and so now all butts point away from Mecca instead of Jerusalem. But I think the reason the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem is super-holy is because of Mo's trip there on a magic carpet or whatever.

My favorite part of the Asad version is the consistent use of "deniers of truth" to refer to Christians and Jews. ROPMA.

Posted by ST 2006-01-10 20:34|| 2006-01-10 20:34|| Front Page Top

#2 So essentially a converted Jew, a guy obviously weaned on the intricacies of the Talmud, was the guy who wrote the definitive translation of their bible.

Lucky for him he was a prisoner of the British during WWII.

Thanks ST for pointing out that article. It was very interesting.

Posted by Penguin 2006-01-10 20:49|| 2006-01-10 20:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Not necessarily the definitive translation -- there's no consensus on that -- but clearly it's CAIR's favorite translation. Which makes sense, as CAIR is basically the US propaganda arm of Hamas.

Posted by ST 2006-01-10 21:06|| 2006-01-10 21:06|| Front Page Top

#4 So are the pages soft enough to use for.....??

That's about the only way I can think of to flush it.

Personally I wouldn't want CAIR to have my home address.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-01-10 22:52|| 2006-01-10 22:52|| Front Page Top

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