Blogging the Qur’an The Guardian’s Madeleine Bunting and cultural critic Ziauddin Sardar will blog a different verse or theme of the Qur’an each week. Bunting says its one of the most difficult books she’s ever read, which is what a lot of non-musl…

The series continues. Previous: Intro, Overview, Sura 1…….

You are my cuddlebug!

You could blog the PHONE BOOK and I’d read every word!

XOXOXO Janie

The Qur’an is, according to classic Islamic thought, a perfect copy of a book that has existed eternally with Allah, the one true God, in Heaven: “it is a transcript of the eternal book [in Arabic, “mother of the book”] in Our keeping, sublime, and full of wisdom” (43:4).

Does this indicate that most Muslims believe Arabic to be God’s personal language?

Robert probably knows the author who goes by the pseudonym Bat Ye’Or quite well ;-)
She is pretty much required reading for those interested in the fight against expansionist and supremacist islam.

She’s one of the interviewees in the documentary “What the West Needs to Know”:
http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/
(available for purchase at Walid Shoebat’s site prior to its nationwide July distribution)
http://www.shoebat.com/islam.php

Perhaps I can convince a few friends to climb aboard and follow along so they can begin educating themselves about the struggle of our time. Afterall, many of them have kids and since we’re beginning to build weapons systems our kids will be using they may as well know who it is they’ll be using them against.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

Nonfactor on May 27, 2007 at 3:21 PM

In the first phrase (“The first thing I’d take objection with…”) of your first comment in the first post in this series, you set yourself up in your usual role as an adversarial pest. My purpose in replying wasn’t to involve myself in a dispute with you about your pedantry, but the opposite. I hoped that if you were told once, in so many words, how unimpressive you are, we might get to endure less of you for the duration. Otherwise, the best remaining tactic is largely to ignore you unless you say something pertinent and interesting. By “pertinent,” I mean contributory to our warlike aims.

While waiting for Robert’s answer, take a look at his biography page on Jihad Watch:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/spencer/
About two thirds of the way down there’s a section on English translations of the qur’an.

Which brings me to a request: Could you give an overview of the major English translations of the Koran with accompanying pros/cons of the respective versions?

Again, thanks for doing this!