[Nachum]

This guy isn't long for this world.

[weenie]

For example, he says the Koranic passage promising men "virgins" in heaven -- often cited as a supposed incentive for male suicide bombers -- really used a word for "white raisins".

...hmmm...now where have I heard something about white raisins, lately?

[dinok]

The islamo-nuts will find him and kill him too.

There is not talking with there murderers...

[wideawake]

Hmmm . . . his work would seem to lend linguistic credence to the theories of theologians who see Nabataean influences in Islam.

The Nabataeans were an Arabic people who lived on the eastern borders of the Jews. They spoke Aramaic and they were allies of the Romans.

Their religion was apparently a mixture of Arab paganism with tinges of Judaism and Christian influences as well.

If the Koran shows as heavy an Aramaic influence as this guy suggests, it makes it pretty likely that the Koran is just cobbled-together fragments of eclectic Nabataean religious texts.

Just as many Jewish texts are written in a blend of Aramaic and Hebrew using Aramaic script, the Koran could be a blend of Arabic and Aramaic in Arabic script.

This would explain the thousands of words and phrases in the Koran that are obscure and that have provoked endless commentary.

It would also explain why the Koran is so disorganized and shuffled. It is the least coherent, in terms of narrative structure, of any major Near Eastern text.

[js1138]

Islam is today's repository of totalitarianism. Communism is pretty much dead as an ideology. Socialism is alive and well, but currently isn't engaged in totalitarianism.

Only Islam is currently executing people for publishing ideas.

[Savage Beast]

"My Muslim friends tell me that many people will jump on this book."

Uh...you mean...they know that you're the author?

[Fred Nerks]

On the Net: Answering Islam, A Christian-Muslim Dialog and Apologetic.
http://answering-islam.org.uk/index.html

See my tagline for link to The Life of Muhammad. A biography of the 'prophet' published in 1913.

[dinasour]

I pray that Daniel Pipes has a bodyguard.

[TexasRepublic]

SCENES WE'D LIKE TO SEE

Terrorist in Hell: "I blew myself up for what, 72 raisins? Aaarrgghhh!"