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  • Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code (Koran a Hoax?)

    01/15/2008 8:18:13 AM PST · by Tazzo · 87 replies · 531+ views
    Asia Times ^ | Jan 15, 2008 | Spengler
    Islam watchers blogged all weekend about news that a secret archive of ancient Islamic texts had surfaced after 60 years of suppression. Andrew Higgins' Wall Street Journal report that the photographic record of Koranic manuscripts, supposedly destroyed during World War II but occulted by a scholar of alleged Nazi sympathies, reads like a conflation of the Da Vinci Code with Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail. The Da Vinci Code offered a silly fantasy in which Opus Dei, homicidal monks and twisted billionaires chased after proof that Christianity is a hoax. But the story of the photographic archive of the...