'Birmingham Koran' fragment could shake Islam, carbon-dating suggests it is OLDER than Muhammad

Daily Mail ^ | 09/01/2015 | By JENNIFER NEWTON

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Standard belief is Caliph Utman ordered the confiscation of all Korans. had a new copy rewritten to HIS specifications and had them distributed to the Imans. The old copies were then destroyed.
Anyone caught with an older copy were put to death.

[BigEdLB]

Off with the head is not new.

[SkyDancer]

The mussies will riot over this, true or not.

[xp38]

Indeed....John the Baptist can confirm that.

[I want the USA back]

Suddenly the left, which has long favored carbon dating, finds serious flaws in the scientific method of determining the age of an artifact.

[2nd Amendment]

man . . to think the oldest Koranic manuscript was found in Alabama!

[Sipowits]

A couple of important questions remain: is it big enough for target practice or soft enough for use in the loo?

[BuffaloJack]

Mad Mo, the plagiarist pedofile.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It’s common for parchment to be reused. It’s called a palimpsest, like the Codex Ephraemi Syri Rescriptus.

[SunkenCiv]

Oldest Koran ‘Destabilises’ Islamic History, Scientists Say It Pre-dates Mohammed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3331295/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 09/01/2015. Thanks SeekAndFind.

the Birmingham Koran keyword:

• Brass tacks discussion on Islam
• Inside the abandoned City of Libraries
• 'Birmingham Koran' fragment could shake Islam, carbon-dating suggests it is OLDER than Muhammad
• Oldest Koran 'Destabilises' Islamic History, Scientists Say It Pre-dates Mohammed
• The BBC Really Wants You To Believe The Qur'an Is Authentic [Will bend truth to convince you]
• 'Oldest' Koran Fragments Found in Birmingham University
• The Yemeni Koran
• Higher Criticism of the Koran Resisted
• What is the Koran?

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• Mali: Timbuktu Locals Saved Some of City's Ancient Manuscripts from Islamists
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• Timbuktu mausoleums "destroyed"
• Islamists destroy 2 more tombs in Mali's Timbuktu
• Islamist rebels destroy UNESCO World Heritage sites in historic Mali city of Timbuktu
• Mali: Islamists destroy Timbuktu heritage sites
• The Rush to Save Timbuktu's Crumbling Manuscripts
• Libraries in the sand reveal Africa's academic past
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• From the Desert, a Wellspring of Ancient Manuscripts