<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Harvey Newstrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@harveynewstrom.com" target="_blank">mail@harveynewstrom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div class="">>> but even though it's more than twice as old written Arabic has changed very little since the Quran was written<br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
<br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> Apparently, according to Wikipedia, this claim is only made for political and religious purposes.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Politics and religion are the only things that could effect an unbeliever living outside the Islamic world, it has been many many centuries since something new and interesting on some other subject first appeared in Arabic. <br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark<br></div><div><br> <br></div></div></div></div>