01 March 2008

Like rewriting the Bible and leaving out a few important things

Seems the Turks, bless them, are going to rewrite the hadith, the sayings of Mohammed, which were supposedly written down during his life, but were probably written in the several centuries after his death. "It says that a significant number of the sayings were never uttered by Muhammad, and even some that were need now to be reinterpreted... An adviser to the project, Felix Koerner, says some of the sayings - also known individually as hadiths - can be shown to have been invented hundreds of years after the Prophet Muhammad died, to serve the purposes of contemporary society." "Expect uproar when this work is published. The last time a religious upheaval of this nature and scope took place in the Christian world it sparked the Thirty Years War. Let's hope this development doesn't do the same to the Islamic world."

Uproar? The ragheads are going to come unwrapped over this one...

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