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Posted on 10/08/2013 1:13:21 PM PDT by kronos77
While Geert Wilders and assorted online provocateurs may like to talk about banning the Qur'an as an extremist text, few take the idea seriously. Except in Russia, perhaps, where on 20 September, a court in the Russian city of Novorossiysk banned a translation of the holy book of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.
To be fair, it is one of several available in the country. This version, the work of an Azeri theologian named Elmir Kuliyev, was declared illegal for promoting extremism through "statements about the superiority of Muslims over non-Muslims"; "negative evaluation of persons who have nothing to do with the Muslim religion"; "positive evaluation of hostile actions by Muslims against non-Muslims", and also, it was argued, inciting violence.
Unsurprisingly, the ruling – which automatically places Kuliyev's Qur'an on a nationwide blacklist – outraged many Russian Muslims. Russia's influential Council of Muftis denounced the verdict, and Kuliyev has one month to appeal. The ban is baffling, as the Russian authorities have little to gain by antagonising 15% of the population, including huge chunks of the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, never mind the restive republics of the Caucasus. Could it just be a case of an incompetent court gone rogue? Perhaps, but another major Muslim organisation has endorsed the verdict. Geraldine Fagan, an expert on religion in Russia, reports that "a representative of the All-Russian Muftiate – a rival to the Council of Muftis – defended the ruling against Kuliyev's translation of the Qur'an … From a theological point of view, Farid Salman maintained, Kuliyev's works 'correspond with the views of the "Salafi" school, not with [the] Islam that is traditional for Muslims of Russia'."
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Truman baby, here; echo that.
Harry was a RATZ. OTH he had his stuff together.
A WWI arty guy. His men took one look at him and laughed. Then, when the going got tough, Harry with his hoot owl glasses put his battery into position and took on the worst. His men respected him. He might have LOOKED like a geek from some college, but the man had stones.
For a demoKaRatz, I did like him.
Go to WWII. He had the nutz to pull the trigger on the bomb, and told the whole world we were the top dog.
Guys in his old unit were NOT surprised that Harry pulled the trigger on Hirosima and Nagasaki.
There’s been endless debate about whether or not we should have used the bomb.
I’ve never heard any such talk from the Pacific Marines who were slated to invade Kyushu.
My dad is a pathetic commie pig union thug.
OTH, he was on an LSM, poised off the coast of Kyushu, and expecting to die in the first wave that he was going to do.
Leftist bung hole that he was, he cried and thanked God that Harry dropped those bombs.
Fast forward to 2005, shipboard reunion, Wright-Patterson AFB. I drove a car full of his shipmates to the museum. We checked in.
All those old codgers took off to the waayyy back of the hanger. I was at a loss. I had to run to catch up.
There, in the waayy back corner, was the BocksCar, in all its glory, complete, still ready to fly.
All those old farts were rubbing their hands on the belly of that airplane, crying their eyes out. Enola Gay DID NOT end the war, BOCKSCAR did. You had to be there to understand.
“My dad is a pathetic commie pig union thug.”
Sorry to hear that.
On the other hand, some moments make up for an entire lifetime of nasty crap, and, personally, I’d give every guy who fought so that I wouldn’t be raised speaking Japanese (or German) a pass on pretty much everything else.
Translation of the unholy book should never be banned. The entire world should know of the depravity contained within.
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