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US researcher hoping to discover body of Jesus in Kashmir tomb
THE HINDUSTAN TIMES ^ | MARCH 11, 2002

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.


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KEYWORDS: india; kashmir; pakistan
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To: headsonpikes
Not 'aitch' or 'ecce', eh?

Well, since it's phonetically transcribed from Hebrew, it could very well be 'aitch'. Definitely not 'eh'. 'ecce'? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Furthermore, scientists are almost certain it isn't 'Harry'!

101 posted on 03/12/2002 8:31:30 AM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Revolting cat!
'ecce' was a small attempt at humor....'ecce homo' reference to crucifixion drama.
102 posted on 03/12/2002 8:39:13 AM PST by headsonpikes
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To: Madiuq
"Academics" are a riot: Always ready to spend your tax dollars on exotic trips around the globe to "prove" that the occupants of a given tomb aren't who the locals say they are, but are in fact somebody else altogether.

Hey, dumbass researcher! Bet ya dollars to donuts your grandma's grave holds the remains of the Blair Witch! The Only way to settle the argument is to dig her nasty bones up. Let's get busy!
103 posted on 03/12/2002 4:33:15 PM PST by BradyLS
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To: grumpster-dumpster
SOMEBODY HELP...I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!!

Hillary Clinton is a United States Senator! (That's news enough to sober a drunken madman! Hopefully, it won't lead to a crying jag...

104 posted on 03/12/2002 4:39:44 PM PST by BradyLS
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To: BradyLS
HILLARY CLINTON: "Hopefully, it won't lead to a crying jag..."

Hey! I'm a grown boy! I can take it (just so long as you don't post a picture of her!) LOL!

105 posted on 03/12/2002 4:45:46 PM PST by grumpster-dumpster
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To: BradyLS
Foul lies!

As is well known to serious theologians everywhere, The House of the Holy Family is in Loreto, Sicily. This archeotheologian is going to tell ME that JH Christ and the Virgin Mary would prefer curries and camel meat to the beautiful foods and wines of Sicily?

Tonight I go to Moretti's Restaurant, then I go to church and pray to St Anthony to help this woman find her mind. To St. Lucy to recover her eyesight, and to San Jose, where she shoulda never left.
In the future, this blasphemous science slut should restrict her activities to finding dinosaur feathers. Leave the religious stuff to me.

106 posted on 03/12/2002 5:11:21 PM PST by Francohio
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To: Darth Sidious; grumpsterdumpster
Wrongo!

Wendover, Utah/Nevada.

107 posted on 03/12/2002 5:13:34 PM PST by Francohio
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To: Francohio
"Wrongo!
Wendover, Utah/Nevada."

Another keen mind willing to join the research team! Super!

P.S; Franchio, your cost of the "expedition" comes to $12,434.27 (cash payments only! ... I can make change for a dollar if that helps?)

Seriously, I think we're on to this "researchers" racket! (Why she picked Kashmir is beyond me though...LOL!)

108 posted on 03/12/2002 5:23:29 PM PST by grumpster-dumpster
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To: Francohio
Shut up you WOP.
109 posted on 03/13/2002 4:53:12 AM PST by Madiuq
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To: Madiuq
Slow night at the 7-11?
110 posted on 03/13/2002 7:09:06 PM PST by Francohio
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To: grumpster-dumpster
Jeez, ordinarily the dough would be no problem. But Mardiug seems upset with my claim that the Holy Family, not to mention Peter and Paul, would find Sicilian-Type Cuisine superior to the curries and camel meat treats of old Kashmir. So I might need it to retain an attorney. Or a theologian.

Holy Cow! I think the Worthy Oriental Gentleman is attempting an insult!

111 posted on 03/13/2002 7:17:24 PM PST by Francohio
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To: Francohio
Jeez, ordinarily the dough would be no problem. But Mardiug seems upset with my claim that the Holy Family, not to mention Peter and Paul, would find Sicilian-Type Cuisine superior to the curries and camel meat treats of old Kashmir. So I might need it to retain an attorney. Or a theologian.

Nonsense my friend! Nonsense I say! The culinary arts play no part in this expeditition! It's your money...err, your interst in TRUTH that is more important!
P.S. I have lived in Italy (proper) and I can assure you that the taint of a "Sicilian influence" will not be a road-block to this important project!
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT AN ATTORNEY...JUST SEND THE MONEY!
P.P.S. A "Theologian" will do you no good...as they are only in it for the "greater-good"...whatever that means!

112 posted on 03/13/2002 8:22:47 PM PST by grumpster-dumpster
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To: Francohio
Sicilians are nothing more than Catholic Arabs.

Go hump your camel.

113 posted on 03/13/2002 8:36:08 PM PST by Madiuq
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To: Madiuq
O, worthy oriental gentleman, may Lord Ghanesh remove the scales of ignorance from your eyes, hopefully before your visa expires.

As to your incredibly gross remarks regarding the camel, PETA will be immediately notified. As to the suggested actions: why that apparently has been tried in your family and we are now corresponding with the results of that tragic experiment.

Please refer to the rules of engagement of this forum in future. In the meantime, Top 'o' The Morning to you.

115 posted on 03/14/2002 4:37:13 AM PST by Francohio
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To: realpatriot71
The abbe's name was Berenger Sauniere, and his housekeeper's name was Marie Denarnaud (she allegedly knew about the secret but took it to her grave). He did have an affair with Emma Calve, the (I think) opera singer.

Any more detail, I'm gonna have to run downstairs and grab the paperback.
116 posted on 03/14/2002 4:43:48 AM PST by Xenalyte
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To: grumpster-dumpster
GD, I am flattered by your offer to join this here expedition. Tonight, I am taking up a little collection at the Bada-Bing and will forward the funds (minus Tony Soprano's vig) tomorrow.

It's deductible, right?

117 posted on 03/14/2002 4:49:12 AM PST by Francohio
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To: Madiuq
He is risen!

Revelation 1:13
And in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band.

14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;

15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;

16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.

18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

118 posted on 03/14/2002 4:51:18 AM PST by Walkin Man
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To: Darth Sidious
Man living in Asheville, I'm suprised you didn't meet anybody who said they were descendants of Atlantis. You probably would recognize them if you did, they were prone to carrying little bags of crystals around their necks!!
119 posted on 03/14/2002 4:52:26 AM PST by billbears
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To: Francohio
You've been called a camel-humper and a WOP (may I see your papers?). I'm thinking someone (not mentioning a name) has had a wife or girlfriend stolen away by a swarthy, virile Italian man to carry that much hatred around.:)
120 posted on 03/14/2002 6:02:33 AM PST by constitutiongirl
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