Posted on 05/22/2005 3:08:55 PM PDT by Valin
While Islamist fanatics and ignorant Westerners sow panic over the alleged desecration of a Koran at Guantanamo Bay, no one mentions a startling fact: When it comes to destruction of the Koran, there's no question who the world champion is--the government of Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi state religion is the primitive and austere Wahhabi version of Islam, which defines many traditional Islamic practices as idolatrous. Notably, the state bans the importation of Korans published elsewhere. When foreign pilgrims arrive at the Saudi border by the millions for the annual journey to Mecca, what happens to the non-Saudi Korans they are carrying?
The border guards confiscate them, to be shredded, pulped, or burned. Beautiful bindings and fine paper are viewed as a particular provocation--all are destroyed. (This on top of the spiritual vandalism the Saudis perpetrate, by inserting anti-Jewish and anti-Christian squibs into the Korans they publish in foreign languages, as Stephen Schwartz documented in our issue of September 27, 2004.)
This behavior isn't a recent innovation, by the way. Here's an account of how the Saudis carried on when they seized the city of Taif in 1802. It's taken from an unimpeachable Islamic source, the compilation Advice for the Muslim, edited by the Turkish scholar Hilmi Isik and published by Hakikat Kitabevi in Istanbul:
The Wahhabis tore up the copies of the Koran . . . and other Islamic books they took from libraries, mosques and houses, and threw them down on the ground. They made sandals from the gold-gilded leather covers of the Koran and other books and wore them on their filthy feet. There were verses of the Koran and other sacred writings on those leather covers. The pages of those valuable books thrown around were so numerous that there was no space to step in the streets of Taif. . . . The Wahhabi bandits, who were gathered from the deserts for looting and who did not know the Koran, tore up all the copies they found and stamped on them. Only three copies of the Koran were saved from the plunder of a major town, Taif.
No wonder anti-Wahhabi Muslims say "the Saudis print the Koran to destroy it." They print it and they destroy it in a daily desecration that makes Newsweek's retracted Guantanamo allegation look trivial by comparison.
Hypocrisy, thy name is muslime. What a foul and repellant cult!
P.R.O.P.* PING!
A.A.C.
All about arab destruction of "mein kur'anf"!
*{Phony Religion Of Peace}
Must be those pigskin covers that sets them off.
Not to mention what they do to the Bible...!
Speaking of closing US military base, why not close those Air Bases in Saudi Arabia
I believe we have, moved all our people to Qatar. The Emir built a brand new airbase on spec. Happened last year(?).
This doesn't sound right at all. If I recall correctly, the caliph Omar ordered a commision to codify a single official Koran, as many various versions had been floating about. This version, without any changes, is the one still used today. To suggest that the Saudis are polluting the Koran, for the first time, with anti-Jewish and anti-Christian phrases seems to be really ridiculous.
It also doesn't sound right that the Saudis would publish Korans in a language other than Arabic, which is supposed to be the divine language of Allah. I would think the Wahabbists would consider such a thing to be blasphemous. But then again, Steven Schwartz is a nut and a loose cannon.
I have had it with Muslims, Islam and the shameless pandering of craven, gutless western politicians, Christian religious leaders, and nations towards this bellicose, medieval, aggressive and primitive cult.
Islam spread through the use of naked force, unlike Christianity. Unlike Judaism, it employed forced proselytization - in practise - thoroughout the Mediterranean region.
It approves of second class status for women, third class status for non-Muslims, and in countries governed by Sharia law, non-Muslims are forbidden to openly practice their religion, make improvements to the exterior of their houses of worship, or build new ones.
And these people riot, killing innocent people over the alleged and false desecration of the Koran - as if that were possible.
Neither Jews, Christains, Buddhists, Hindus, etc would have reacted in such a primitive manner.
And yet we continue to allow Wahhabists and other Muslims to immigrate here, open madrassehs and mosques and spew the kind of anti-Jewish and anti-Christian propaganda that never would have been tolerated just a few generations ago.
Feel free to spread the word.
And yes they are trying to piss everyone off who has half a brain and yes they are succeeding.
I tried to post this as a thread earlier and it got yanked.
Good.
Ha! And here we are worrying about the Muslims or the world's opinion for that matter.
I read on some middle eastern blogs and have talked to some Muslims I know and the Saudis do not have a good reputation.
Amazing, isn't it? And stuff like this doesn't get much media coverage.
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