Posted on 12/11/2008 2:10:53 PM PST by forkinsocket
For more than two decades, Abdulkarim Soroush has been Iran’s leading public intellectual. Deeply versed in Islamic theology and mysticism, he was chosen by Ayatollah Khomeini to “Islamicize” Iran’s universities, only to eventually turn against the theocratic state. He paid a price for his dissidence. Vigilantes and other government-supported elements disrupted his widely attended lectures in Iran, beat him and reportedly nearly assassinated him. In a country where intellectuals are often treated like rock stars, Soroush has been venerated and reviled for his outspoken support of religious pluralism and democracy. Now he has taken one crucial step further. Shuttling from university to university in Europe and the U.S., Soroush is sending shock waves through Iran’s clerical establishment.
The recent controversy began about eight months ago, after Soroush spoke with a Dutch reporter about one of Islam’s most sensitive issues: the divine origin of the Koran. Muslims have long believed that their holy book was transmitted word for word by God through the Prophet Muhammad. In the interview, however, Soroush made explicit his alternative belief that the Koran was a “prophetic experience.” He told me that the prophet “was at the same time the receiver and the producer of the Koran or, if you will, the subject and the object of the revelation.” Soroush said that “when you read the Koran, you have to feel that a human being is speaking to you, i.e. the words, images, rules and regulations and the like all are coming from a human mind.” He added, “This mind, of course, is special in the sense that it is imbued with divinity and inspired by God.”
As Soroush’s words spread thanks to the Internet, Iran’s grand ayatollahs entered the battlefield.
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The Koran was written by Jewish sages. This is demonstrated by the fact that the Koran’s eschatology is completely Cabbalistic.
What? No fatwah, yet? The Muslims must be getting lazy.
A tribe of reformed cannibals from the Congo.
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Jayson Blair
A wonderful bunch of pigs.
The god of this world.
ding-ding-ding
You’re the only one with the right answer.
Who put the Ram in the
Ramadan ding dong?
I've got to know the answer,
Was it someone from above?
I wonder who be-do be-dooo...
Who wrote the BOOK OF LOVE???
A pedophile.
And one that devised an ingenious way of ransacking and stealing by divying up the spoils on a percentage basis with those who’s barbarism he sanctioned.
The merry parade of rape, pillaging and plundering worked its way right through the Middle East and Northern Africa.
And it’s been misery mostly since.
“Who wrote the Koran?”
Obviously some old fool that liked to have sex with camels and little boys.
Personally, I liked “Silence of the Lambs” a lot more. At least it wasn’t all that violent and it had a happy ending. Fava beans...ummm, yum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVlkZVAw8Gc
Religion of peace, not so much.
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Everyone knows that Bill Ayers ghost authored it for the “Chosen One”
Better question yet is, who wrote Genesis?
“Better question yet is, who wrote Genesis?”
We are into pigs right now. Genesis will come later.
Thank you.
How dare you raise this question,,, off with his head!!!
Baba Booey! Baba Booey!
Bill Ayers
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