US researcher hoping to discover body of Jesus in Kashmir tomb

Hindustan Times ^ | Monday, March 11, 2002 | Izhar Wani (AFP)

[aculeus]

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.

[Savage Beast]

DNA testing, huh? I don't know how they're going to get a sample from his Dad. Word is He invented the stuff.

What! Everybody knows that Al Gore invented DNA.

[Sender]

(Note found in tomb)

To whoever it may concern:

Had to go up to Dad's for awhile. Am fixing up the place for company. Be right back.

[Sangamon Kid]

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.

Now there's a smart move. Kashmir, already a Hindu-Muslim powderkeg, and she wants to throw Christians into the mix.

[repubmom]

He is risen indeed!

[tracer]

I wish that I had the time and funds to set up a beautiful "goof" to ensnare and embarass this poltroon. The possibilities for this kind of mischief are endless.

Suggestions??

(For entertainment purposes only.) <8~)

[martin gibson]

Where are they going to find a relative to match DNA with?

They can match with samples from the Shroud of Turin.

[putupon]

US researcher hoping to discover body of Jesus in Kashmir tomb

US Freeper hoping to discover brick of gold in maibox

[csvset]

If she were to discover Osama's body, that would be something.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

The problem with this type of thing is that it is designed to constantly, inscessantly, add doubt to God's word. From that doubt you get things like pastors holding anti-Biblical tenants such as openly, proud, homosexual pastors.

The Red Cross is helping out here by not allowing "offensive" songs such as God Bless America to be sung at 9-11 memorials.

[Piquaboy]

They could do that, but not without the body which they won't have. "He has truly risen".

[RnMomof7]

DNA testing, huh? I don't know how they're going to get a sample from his Dad. Word is He invented the stuff.

Thanks for the ping al..great line sheezza..and you are correct .Satan loves to plant doubts!

[dansangel]

"I suspect this is wishful thinking on your part."

His question was meant to be as ridiculous as the article.

Lighten up.

[DreamWeaver]

I do wish they'd put her on a shorter leash, though. We don't need another international "incident" right now.

ROFL.....Oh, that made my day, I needed that laugh ...!!!!...:):):)

[NorseWood]

Does this mean that we will have to cancel Easter?

[PatrickHenry]

She may find the true father of Sally Hemmings' child.

[GussiedUp]

Well she won't find Jesus of Nazareth but then she can pull a typical scientific stunt and swear she actually found Jimmy Hoffa. The press will be in awe.

[Fabozz]

"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."

Okay, let's think about this for a minute. All those people died in the Middle East. Kashmir is thousands of miles away from there, across wide deserts and some of the tallest mountains in the world, right? Yeah, it makes perfect sense they'd all be buried there. Why, sure and it's a regular Forest Lawn cemetery for the leading lights of the Abrahamic faiths. You betcha.

[f.Christian]

"If the Christ of God, in His sorrowful life below, be but a specimen of suffering humanity, or a model of patient calmness under wrong, not one of these things is manifested or secured. He is but one fragment more of a confused and disordered world, where everything has broken loose from its anchorage, and each is dashing against the other in unmanageable chaos, without any prospect of a holy or tranquil issue. He is an example of the complete triumph of evil over goodness, of wrong over right, of Satan over God,-one from whose history we can draw only this terrific conclusion, that God has lost the control of His own world; that sin has become too great a power for God either to regulate or extirpate; that the utmost that God can do is to produce a rare example of suffering holiness, which He allows the world to tread upon without being able effectually to interfere; that righteousness, after ages of buffeting and scorn, must retire from the field in utter helplessness, and permit the unchecked reign of evil. If the cross be the mere exhibition of self-sacrifice and patient meekness, then the hope of the world is gone. We had always thought that there was a... potent purpose---of God at work in connection with the sin- bearing work of the holy Sufferer, which, allowing sin for a season to develop itself, was preparing and evolving a power which would utterly overthrow it, and sweep earth clean of evil, moral and physical. But if the crucified Christ be the mere self-denying man, we have nothing more at work for the overthrow of evil than has again and again been witnessed, when some hero or martyr rose above the level of his age to protest against evils which he could not eradicate, and to bear witness in life and death for truth and righteousness,-in vain."

[Revolting cat!]

Sorry to disappoint you, but all questions have already been resolved in the previous post of the same article.

[Some hope remaining.]

Actually, that's a later post of the same article. It's kind of funny because both threads have a link to the other thread, each claiming the other was first. :^)