Posted on 03/11/2002 3:23:31 PM PST by Madiuq
An American researcher who believes she has found the final resting place of Jesus Christ is campaigning to exhume a body at a Muslim shrine in Kashmir for scientific tests. Suzanne Marie Olsson, a New York-based researcher is currently in Srinagar, studying the Muslim shrine of Rozabal. While Muslims say Rozabal houses the tomb of Yuza Asaf, a Muslim saint, many researchers believe it contains the body of Jesus Christ. To put an end to speculation Olsson has suggested exhuming the remains at Rozabal for DNA testing and carbon dating. "This will trace him (the saint) to his origin ... and resolve the raging controversy over the identity of the place forever," she told the Sunday edition of Kashmir's leading daily, the Greater Kashmir. Olsson has already dug up a shrine at the Murree hill station in Pakistan under the supervision of archaeologists Ahmad Hassan Dani and Saida Rahman. Muree is believed to be the resting place of Jesus' mother, Mary (Marium). "The exhumed remains have been sent for the DNA testing and the report is awaited," she told the newspaper. "Now Rozabal holds the key. If the remains there are sent for testing and then tallied with the results of the Murree project, it will either establish the link between the two shrines as being of similar origin and thus authenticate the Marium-Jesus theory or prove it wrong for good." However, her project has run into trouble with the managers of the Rozabal shrine, who are strongly opposed to its "desecration". "We will never allow it," said Mohammed Amin, one of the managers. But Olsson, stressing the "purely scientific nature of her work" and her identity as a "seeker of truth", is pleading to be allowed to "verify the origin and identity of the saint" to put to rest wild speculation. She has even written to Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah for help. Olsson also believes Moses is buried in Bandipore in north Kashmir, the Islamic prophet Haroun at Harwan, on the outskirts of Srinagar, and Solomon at Takht-i-Suliaman in Srinagar. "You have more Christian holy sites than even Egypt or Israel," she said in her appeal to the chief minister. Olsson says she wants to unravel the truth about the shrines so that the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir, ravaged by a decade-long Muslim insurgency that has claimed 35,000 lives, can become a pilgrimage centre for Christians and Muslims.
Getting Mary's DNA would be the easy part. I'm on the edge of my seat to see how they track down that "Holy Ghost" guy, to get his DNA. He is widely reported to be the biological father.
I heard he'd caught the last train for the coast.
LOL!
Try "Heaven's"
When I was living in Asheville NC, I heard a bunch of stories about how relics/artifacts from Atlantis were to be found in the mountains. That survivors from it originally settled the area.
I'd love to mount up an expedition to find out more. Think the state could give me some grant money? :-)
I have a feeling it's gone horribly out of style or something.
The "Atlantians" all work in the casinos in Jersy... Still, I'm sure somebody is stupi... err, enlightend enough to fund what sounds like a worthwhile expedition! :)
Hey did you ever play Gabriel Knight 3? They lifted the whole plot of that video game from the... "theories" in that book. It was fun :)
Actually, one of the more fascinating details of modern life, completely overlooked even by Christians, is the apparent blood DNA match between the Shroud of Turin (in Italy), supposedly the burial shroud of Jesus, and the blood DNA of the burial facial cloth of Jesus (located in Spain.)
The two have entirely separate histories, yet purport to be the burial clothes of Jesus, with matching DNA.
What is this Nimrod smoking?
Can you imagine, they find out Jesus is buried in war torn Kashmir, thus potentially destroying a basic foundation of Christian principles and we then find out that the Muslims stole the body and claimed it for their own "saint".
And Christians and Muslims are going to pilgimage there to do what? Hug each other?
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