[Let's Roll]

Bingo re your dissonance theory. This link is from an article that points out how careless their culture is with just using tenses - mixing the past and present tenses at will. Sort of if I plan to do it, it's the same as if I really did it. We will never understand them because it isn't possible.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3c04dabd366a.htm

[Movemout]

Thanks for the link. I remember reading it when it was first posted. It presents an unsolvable problem. It does explain some of their schizoid behavior. Their Golden Age, like that of the Greeks, Romans, Persia, Britain, and much of the rest of Europe has receded into history, perhaps never to reemerge. I guess Allah is just not as potent as Jehovah.