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To: reagandemo

Christoph Luxenberg, a scholar of ancient Semitic languages in Germany, argues that the Koran has been misread and mistranslated for centuries. His work, based on the earliest copies of the Koran, maintains that parts of Islam's holy book are derived from pre-existing Christian Aramaic texts that were misinterpreted by later Islamic scholars who prepared the editions of the Koran commonly read today.

So, for example, the virgins who are supposedly awaiting good Islamic martyrs as their reward in paradise are in reality "white raisins" of crystal clarity rather than fair maidens.

http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/02/03/1bkk/04b.html


42 posted on 03/08/2006 2:50:32 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Not to mention that the Koran was written over 100 years after Mohammad's death and that there were no persons alive who heard anything he said first hand.


43 posted on 03/09/2006 5:25:42 AM PST by reagandemo (The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
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