[ExI] Lost photos

hkhenson hkhenson at rogers.com
Mon Jan 14 21:15:22 UTC 2008


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.

Keith 




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