[ExI] Lost photos

Jef Allbright jef at jefallbright.net
Mon Jan 14 19:34:39 UTC 2008


On Jan 14, 2008 11:07 AM, hkhenson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120008793352784631.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120008793352784631.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>
>
> "A scholar in northern Germany writes under the pseudonym of
> Christoph Luxenberg because, he says, his controversial views on the
> Quran risk provoking Muslims. He claims that chunks of it were
> written not in Arabic but in another ancient language, Syriac. The
> "virgins" promised by the Quran to Islamic martyrs, he asserts, are
> in fact only "grapes."

Then the reward for martyrdom is 72 grapes?  From an EP perspective,
that won't work nearly as well.

- Jef



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