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The Quran: Misinterpreted, Mistranslated, and Misread (written in Aramaic, not Arabic...big diff!)
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| 5/7/2006
| Gabriel Sawma
Posted on 05/19/2006 12:17:00 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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I cannot, as yet, speak to the authenticity or quality of this article and the book to which it refers.
However, if there is any substance to this claim that the koran should be interpreted from the Aramaic instead of Arabic...and if the interpretations provided by this author are indeed true, it should make for a very interesting discussion among muslims.
To: Dark Skies
Sounds like a muzzie version of a Da Vinci Code plot.
To: Dark Skies
I don't think you're going to convince the Fundamentalists of this.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:20:36 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: Dark Skies
To: Tzimisce
It'll be interesting to see if this claim can gain any traction with anyone.
To: Dark Skies
I'd be very careful with accepting this too, but if so it's interesting. Heck, we have the same problem just between King James' formal english and modern english.
Awful, terrible, awesome, wondrous...
Let, allowed, permitted, commanded...
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:22:42 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: K4Harty
Sounds like a muzzie version of a Da Vinci Code plot. LOL!!
Now, THAT is funny!
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:22:54 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Governor of California, another job Americans won't do.)
To: Tzimisce
But, but according to the MSM/Liberals they are just misunderstood, passionate persons who want to sit down and negotiate with us.
/s
To: Dark Skies
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:23:34 PM PDT
by
No.6
(www.fourthfightergroup.com)
To: K4Harty
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:23:52 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: K4Harty
The Gospel of Judas for the Muslims. Kewl.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:24:09 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: Dark Skies
I wonder if Ian McKellen thinks it should be labeled as fiction?
-PJ
To: Dark Skies
The biggest irony of all is that the people in this world who are the most familiar with the Aramaic language are Jewish religious scholars - due to the fact that large parts of the Talmud are written in Aramaic.
It'd be interesting to see a Translation of the Koran into Aramaic, with the Arabic meaning on the facing page, and commentary of what the differences are. Of course, anyone putting out that book would automatically be targetted for death by the "Religion of Peace," but it would be interesting nonetheless.
To: Dark Skies
I can here a collective "Woopsie" from all the nut job extremists over this story....
To: K4Harty
Will the writers of the DaVinci Code have the testicular fortitude to run their little code-breaker thingy on the Koran?
Cult - Evil - Barbaric - AntiChrist - HellonEarth - IranianHitler - FunnyCartoons - HeadCoppers - BombsMadeOfChildren - Haters
To: K4Harty
Sounds like a muzzie version of a Da Vinci Code plot. Hardly parallel.
Described here are rather significant "mistranslations." This can be easily verified using original sources (or trusted copies).
To: K4Harty
Ha ha! First FR laugh of the day.
To: Dark Skies
"Aramaic is not only the dominant language of the Quran; it is the language of the Quran, without which the Quran can never be understood. Every single verse of Quran is written in the Aramaic language. "
Gosh. Every and Muslim scholar and average joe thought they were reading something in Arabic and were wrong?
The good news is they can now realize they are bilingual!
The bad news is there will be no more Mel Gibson movies in Aramaic to get bit parts in.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:29:13 PM PDT
by
Shermy
(Ronald Reagan was man enough to call an Amnesty an Amnesty.)
To: Dark Skies
And in the fundamentalist Muslim world, there is a blue light special on fatwas against one, Gabriel Sawma.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:30:08 PM PDT
by
Sergio
(If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
To: Dark Skies
However, if there is any substance to this claim that the koran should be interpreted from the Aramaic instead of Arabic...and if the interpretations provided by this author are indeed true, it should make for a very interesting discussion among muslims.
Thats a big if.
I have seen a similar thing with English translations of Scripture. In fact I can think of three instances in the New Testament where the understanding of a passage can be can be altered and or significantly improved by an understanding of the Greek.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:30:50 PM PDT
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
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