Posted on 01/15/2008 8:18:13 AM PST by Tazzo
Islam watchers blogged all weekend about news that a secret archive of ancient Islamic texts had surfaced after 60 years of suppression. Andrew Higgins' Wall Street Journal report that the photographic record of Koranic manuscripts, supposedly destroyed during World War II but occulted by a scholar of alleged Nazi sympathies, reads like a conflation of the Da Vinci Code with Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail. The Da Vinci Code offered a silly fantasy in which Opus Dei, homicidal monks and twisted billionaires chased after proof that Christianity is a hoax. But the story of the photographic archive of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, now ensconced in a Berlin vault, is a case of life imitating truly dreadful art.
....The history of the archive reads like an Islamic version of the Da Vinci Code. It is not clear why its existence was occulted for sixty years, or why it has come to light now, or when scholars will have free access to it.
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
“THEY are already at war with us. I really don’t give a flying damn about what upsets them at this point.”
Thank you. Can’t be said enough.
Indeed.
Though thick cobwebs could grow over that wait.
As the author concludes in this article:
Throughout the Internet, Islamist sites denounce the work of a handful of marginalized scholars as evidence of a plot by Christian missionaries to sabotage Islam. What the Muslim world cannot conceal is its vulnerability and fear in the face of Koranic criticism. In the great battle for converts through the Global South, this may turn out to be a paralyzing disadvantage.
As opposed to what they're already doing?
I think you are wrong about that.
I believe the extremist Muslims issue the death threats for two reasons.
One because the Koran states that those who insult Islam must die.
Two because of the old Bedouin sense of honor which is not unlike the old European honor codes of the seventeenth century that required that ones honor must be defended to the death with the exception that the Bedouin did not believe in fair play and would gladly stab you in the back and feel that they had properly defended their honor. (So much for cultural equivalence).
Dont underestimate your enemy. With liberals in control of our society with their belief in cultural equivalence we are at a great did advantage in this war.
We can not afford to underestimate the resolve of our enemy.
Nagging Doubts would suggest that our enemy is weak in their resolve. I do not see any evidence of that in the actions of our enemy.
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