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Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code (Koran a Hoax?)
Asia Times ^ | Jan 15, 2008 | Spengler

Posted on 01/15/2008 8:18:13 AM PST by Tazzo

Islam watchers blogged all weekend about news that a secret archive of ancient Islamic texts had surfaced after 60 years of suppression. Andrew Higgins' Wall Street Journal report that the photographic record of Koranic manuscripts, supposedly destroyed during World War II but occulted by a scholar of alleged Nazi sympathies, reads like a conflation of the Da Vinci Code with Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail. The Da Vinci Code offered a silly fantasy in which Opus Dei, homicidal monks and twisted billionaires chased after proof that Christianity is a hoax. But the story of the photographic archive of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, now ensconced in a Berlin vault, is a case of life imitating truly dreadful art.

....The history of the archive reads like an Islamic version of the Da Vinci Code. It is not clear why its existence was occulted for sixty years, or why it has come to light now, or when scholars will have free access to it.

(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: goldentablets; islam; koran; magicspectacles
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1 posted on 01/15/2008 8:18:14 AM PST by Tazzo
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To: Tazzo
occulted by a scholar

I don't think I've seen it used as a verb before. But it seems to be an oddly appropriate word choice.

2 posted on 01/15/2008 8:20:21 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: Tazzo

The koran is simply the bible twisted to meet mohammed’s purpose of domination over enemies.


3 posted on 01/15/2008 8:21:07 AM PST by Larebil (My name is liberal backwards, since they backwards thinking)
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To: Tazzo

Spengler(He,They) is not breaking news.


4 posted on 01/15/2008 8:22:20 AM PST by BGHater ('A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry'-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Tazzo
Koran a Hoax?

yes the whole damn thing is a hoax

5 posted on 01/15/2008 8:22:21 AM PST by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: Tazzo

The Koran is Satan’s bible.


6 posted on 01/15/2008 8:22:45 AM PST by joebuck
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To: ClearCase_guy

They use it in reference to the twelfth imam too. He has been in occultation since 1342 or some non-sense like that. I thought that was appropriate too. And I think the whole koran is a hoax.


7 posted on 01/15/2008 8:22:55 AM PST by bird4four4 (Behead those who suggest Islam is violent!)
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To: Tazzo
...Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem...

I am not sure, but I think HE was a relative of Saddam Hussein........

8 posted on 01/15/2008 8:24:02 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Tazzo

I’m waiting for Time Magazine and the History channel to pour over this evidence and have exposes during the next Ramadan...


9 posted on 01/15/2008 8:25:52 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I don't think I've seen it used as a verb before. But it seems to be an oddly appropriate word choice.

Very true........

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/occulted

10 posted on 01/15/2008 8:25:54 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: joebuck

Mohammed was an anti-Christ. He acknowledged Jesus AND denied Him and led the flock astray.


11 posted on 01/15/2008 8:27:11 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: Tazzo

I read the article in the WSJ about this subject. It didn’t contend that the Koran is a hoax. It talked about the efforts to apply the same textual criticism to the Koran that was applied to the Bible. Apparently the loss of these films for sixty years made this analysis impossible. Now that they have resurfaced it may become possible again to critically look at the Koran and trace it’s development. Of course it would require courageous researchers to do this.


12 posted on 01/15/2008 8:27:52 AM PST by jalisco555 ("The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history." Winston Churchill)
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To: Tazzo

A hoax and a cult.


13 posted on 01/15/2008 8:27:55 AM PST by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: Vaquero
Koran a Hoax?

"yes the whole damn thing is a hoax"

I repeat myself. Islam is a mental illness.

14 posted on 01/15/2008 8:28:20 AM PST by davisfh
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To: Tazzo
This should fun, pass the popcorn!

Here's the relevant snack for this particular endeavor!

15 posted on 01/15/2008 8:28:29 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: weegee
"I’m waiting for Time Magazine and the History channel to pour over this evidence and have exposes during the next Ramadan..."

I suspect persons in charge at those media outlets are far too in favor of their heads remaining attached to their necks.

16 posted on 01/15/2008 8:28:56 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Tazzo

Wonder how fast the Fatwahinese are gonna start issuing death threats over this?


17 posted on 01/15/2008 8:29:23 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (To Err Is Human. To Arr is Pirate. To Unnngh! is Freeper.)
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To: Tazzo

If true, absolutely no good can come from this. Staunch believers will not back away from their beliefs, they will only become enraged. This has the potential to destabalize the world if not treated with extreme caution.

Furthermore, it will further encourage mockery of religion of all stripes in the West.


18 posted on 01/15/2008 8:29:58 AM PST by dinoparty
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To: Tazzo

I always had a funny feeling about Islam......... ;-)


19 posted on 01/15/2008 8:32:40 AM PST by Fox_Mulder77
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To: weegee

Would be consistent.

Of course what will really happen is that this information will remain “occulted”.


20 posted on 01/15/2008 8:33:57 AM PST by BenLurkin
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