What is the Koran?

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[Nogbad]

"Other scholars are less admiring, referring to Wansbrough's work as "drastically wrongheaded," "ferociously opaque," and a "colossal self-deception."

The author does not bother to mention who these other scholars are.
Ayatollah Khomeini, perhaps?

This is not a particularly enlightening article
nor well written
but given that the source is the leftist pablum producer
Atlantic Monthly
I suppose we should be grateful.

[Nogbad]

attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia
(exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint)
to the image of a Biblical prophet
(modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium
into an Arabian man of God)
with a traditional message of salvation
(modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism
into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).

Or, in simple words, they took Mohammed and made him into Moses.
The return to Mecca is the voyage to the Promised Land, completed.

Any child not already brainwashed ought to be able to see through this.
The Emperor has no clothes.

The plots in Spider Man are more sophisticated and original than this.

The authors of the Koran are the most successful literary figures in all history.
They have fooled not only 1,000,000,000 Moslems,
but 4,000,000,000 gullible infidels as well.

[Nogbad]

can somebody please give the correct spelling of the Libyan dictator's name?

Using the usual rules of transliteration it is Qaddafi,
which means, by the way, "Slinger".

[dennisw]

thanks for posting it

[dennisw]

I agree. The Koran is the handbook for hypnotizing the gullible masses of Arabia and beyond. That the Koran is 50% lifting then perverting preceding scripture. That's it's as coherent and meaningful to the human condition as a low budget action movie.

[Nogbad]

which is to say that I believe that Mohammed wrote it.

Nobody, not even orthodox Moslems, believes Mohammed wrote the Koran.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The fellow from 100 yrs ago quoted has it most accurate. The Koran is one of the most stubborn enemies of Civilization, Liberty and the Truth which the world has ever known.

It is a compliation of crap without any redeeming features and reads like it was composed by an illiterate camel driver and caravan thief. Only among the ignorant could it have flourished. Only by killing its enemies could it have survived.

Unlike most high religion's scriptures it is devoid of beauty and eternal truths which is to be expected since it takes the tales of the Holy Bible and twists and perverts them into incomprehensible garbage. People need to read this junk or they will never comprehend the depth of the world's problem with Islame.

[lds23]

The Koran has pretty much kept Islam in centuries-long Dark Ages.

[justshutupandtakeit]

There is no value in Islame. It is a religion of death and always has been. There is nothing in the Koran except lies. Mad Mo merely grafted ill-digested parts of Judaism and Christianity into a doctrine fit for the savage and ignorant. As a freeper pointed out in a post yesterday Islame resulted from the adultry of Abraham. The Bible immediately pointed to the horror and evil to result from the descendents of Ismael. "Everyman's hand will be against him and he will be against everyman." And this prophacy was a couple of thousand years before Mad Mo (piss be upon his hand) was born.

Islame destroys everything it touches and the goodness of moslems is in inverse portortion to their faith. Good believers are rare they must ignore their religion to be good. This is the contrary of Christians and Jews whose goodness is strictly proportional to their following their religions.

Whatever crackbrained religion you are considering initiating it will immediately be superior to Islame and I am sure its texts will be far more literary than the Koran. ONly one created by an idiot with half a brain could be worse. It is the only religious text without a shred of beauty or truth. God has never had a thing to do with the collection of trash called the Koran. It is filled with Lies and thus can only be the product of the Prince of Lies.

"Pistic" ?

[justshutupandtakeit]

There is no value in Islame. It is a religion of death and always has been. There is nothing in the Koran except lies. Mad Mo merely grafted ill-digested parts of Judaism and Christianity into a doctrine fit for the savage and ignorant. As a freeper pointed out in a post yesterday Islame resulted from the adultry of Abraham. The Bible immediately pointed to the horror and evil to result from the descendents of Ismael. "Everyman's hand will be against him and he will be against everyman." And this prophacy was a couple of thousand years before Mad Mo (piss be upon his hand) was born.

Islame destroys everything it touches and the goodness of moslems is in inverse portortion to their faith. Good believers are rare they must ignore their religion to be good. This is the contrary of Christians and Jews whose goodness is strictly proportional to their following their religions.

Whatever crackbrained religion you are considering initiating it will immediately be superior to Islame and I am sure its texts will be far more literary than the Koran. ONly one created by an idiot with half a brain could be worse. It is the only religious text without a shred of beauty or truth. God has never had a thing to do with the collection of trash called the Koran. It is filled with Lies and thus can only be the product of the Prince of Lies.

"Pistic" ?

[Kozak]

You left out the part about the aledged reciever of the revelation Mohammed, being as psychotic as any NYC bag lady....

[mn_b_one]

"what is the Koran?" A$$WIPE, or more politically correct, toilet paper. Period.

[smoking camels]

Man... you sure a screwed up. LOL Thanks for the laugh. I guess not all crazies are liberals! LOL

[smoking camels]

I hereby piss on the Koran and on the false and evil prophet known as Mad Mohammered.

Wish I could get to Mecca. I'd take one might crap right on the site.

[smoking camels]

Do you worship at the entrance to that Womb-Temple?

I read your post again. Look dude... save your crapola false religion for another time and place. I don't want to see you posting this garbage here again. Understand?

[dennisw]

What a wacko post from that dude. Hahahhaha.

[smoking camels]

did you get what I meant about worshipping at the entrance to his Womb-Temple? LOL

[dennisw]

did you get what I meant about worshipping at the entrance to his Womb-Temple? LOL...................

Not really. Mostly because I couldn't understand his Aliester Crowley type screed.

[tictoc]

Check out his profile page!

... I also want a military operation to remove embattled and persecuted Shristians from the Middle East.

LOL!