Posted on 05/18/2005 3:34:22 PM PDT by abu afak
An Islamic civil rights group is launching a Koran giveaway -- a campaign intended to turn a "negative incident into something more positive," it said.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations planned to hold a Tuesday morning news conference to discuss details of its campaign to offer free Korans to the American public.
CAIR said its campaign is a direct response to the controversy generated by Newsweek magazine's May 9 article claiming that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed a Koran down a toilet in an effort to "rattle" detainees.
Newsweek retracted the anonymously sourced story on Monday, after first admitting that parts of it were wrong.
CAIR said its campaign, called "Explore the Koran," involves the community-sponsored distribution of Islam's revealed text to Americans nationwide.
"It is our belief that greater access to Islam's holy book will help foster a better appreciation and understanding of Islam by ordinary Americans," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.
Last week, CAIR called on the Bush administration to launch a public probe of the Koran-flushing allegations..."
(I wonder if they have a PR version for Americans? .. otherwise ...)
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
OK .. I'll take them all. I need lots for my shooting targets. :)
Careful.
You'll end up on a mailing list and then they will call you just as you're trying to sit down for supper.
I'm not surprised, I've heard from numerious places, and people that their are edited versions of the quran, edited and unedited.
Most of the time, the edited version is considered a more modern translation.
But no idiot, ever uses it, and no muslim does either.
Try as I might, I still read the thread title as "Free Korean".
I've watched too much Senate debate today, I guess.
I recommend all Freepers partake of this offer. Any course of action that depletes CAIR's resources seems to be a wise one.
TP back-up.
http://quran.net/
From the responses, I guess I should have posted this string in 'Political Humor'.
I'll take all I can get. It's dollars they can't spend elsewhere.
I'd take a bunch to start my fireplace in the winter with.
I don't respect their religion, they worship the pagan god of the moon...which is their right.
But if they keep producing terrorists with their religion, then I am all for converting them forcibly at one point to Christianity.
If there leaders can purge the terrorists out of their religion, then I don't care if they want to worship the colon of Michael Moore.
If they don't handle the problem, the rest of the world will.
Can I sue CAIR for damage to my septic system?
I want a Koran ... in case I run low on Charmin
One would certainly hope that they're sanitary. I can't think of a worse place to get an infection than around ones koranus.
That is exactly right. In the mosques they use the original Arabic version. As a matter of fact there are millions of Moslems around the world who don't speak Arabic who have never seen or heard a translation of it!
There are several cleaned up translations for the consumption of Infidels. You can bet this translation bears little or no resemblance to the Arabic version they worship by.
Additionally, the Arabic version is virtually untranslatable since it has no punctuation or diacritical marks. It is basically an incomprehensible string of syllables that could have many meanings.
The Haddiths or Traditions are the meat of Islam. This is where the Osamas and Khomeinis of the world get their instructions.
I see that pretty much every thought that popped into my head has already been posted...
I'll use it to wipe the Al Queda from my Mulla
Not a good idea to get on CAIR's mailing list, pal.
Wonder if they carry the New Aloe coated Koran...it causes less chafing..
We haven't bought charcoal for BBQ season yet...
This is very true. More Americans will understand the vile and putrid religion that is Islam. More Americans will see the goal of Islam is not the salvation of soul but world conquest and domination. More Americans will see that the book is not about our Creator but about imposing harsh penalties,pain, death and destruction for those opposed to Islamic conquest.
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