[ExI] Lost photos

Jef Allbright jef at jefallbright.net
Mon Jan 14 22:08:29 UTC 2008


On Jan 14, 2008 1:15 PM, hkhenson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> At 12:34 PM 1/14/2008, Jef wrote:
> >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.
>
> It would weed out the ones with a passion for grapes instead of those
> just terminally gullible.

Wine not, they're always grapeful to kill some juice...



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