To: SCR1
Yes, that was on Snopes. But you have to read WHY it was on Snopes.
That interview was never proven untrue. It was declared a hoax because of improver journalistic etiquette:
Snopes:
You really shouldn't run an article whose source is a foreign language you don't understand unless you have a copy of the original text and you're especially confident of the translator. And you really shouldn't run an article that has already been translated once into a second language you don't understand, then re-translated. If this interview was really taken from a Portugeuse translation of an Arabic transcript, where are those other versions? Shouldn't verifying that they at least existed have been a basic step undertaken to determine that the interview wasn't a hoax before running this article? And even if the interview this article was based upon were genuine, how would we know whether the doubly-translated Arabic-to-Portuguese-to-English version bore any reliable resemblance to the meaning of the original?
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They make a valid point. We all would like to see the original text. But no one has debunked any of the statements.
Now THAT I would like to see debunked.
1,052 posted on
02/26/2004 4:15:36 PM PST by
Calpernia
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To: Calpernia
Another thing to keep in mind is that Snopes.com is run by a couple of loony liberals.
1,079 posted on
02/26/2004 5:43:56 PM PST by
thecabal
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