You beat me too it. Apparently I’ve been reading the Koran or something for the last 37 years.
Dur. I’m starting to write like my students. That should read “Beat me to it.”
The Koran should actually be mandatory reading — just like the Mein Kampf? Have you ever read these? You’d be surprised at the amount of insanity in those two books, the amount they contradict themsevles. For instance, inthe Koran, Mohammed, in the 6th century came to the conclusion that Abraham actually wanted to sacrifice Ishmael not Isaac — despite this not having even been imagined for 2000 years. Ditto about the Koranic version of the Birth Of Christ — Mohammed seems to have read revelations and gotten mixed up: the Koran says that MAry went to the desert and gave birth to The Christ under a tree...