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To: Mrs. Don-o
There is a very interesting article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about "The Lost Archives". These were rolls of film which held photographic images of Koran through the ages. The study was to see if, in fact, the Koran of today is the same as it was when it was supposedly given to Mohammed directly from Allah. That is the claim of the fundamentalist Muslims, and those who don't adhere to that claim of the unchanging Koran were hoping to use the archives to prove their point. The Berlin Archive in which the film was stored was bombed by the Allies in WWII, and the man responsible for the Lost Archive claimed it was lost in the attack.

Turns out, he had them all along, and hid them at his house. After his death, earlier this decade, they were found, and are not being made available to a group of German scholars. Some are using false names in print because they're scared of reprisals by Muslims. It will be interesting to see what they find. Makes me wonder if their discoveries will be trumpeted with the fervor of those who reported on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

31 posted on 01/13/2008 5:55:30 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Please post it. I’d like to read it.


32 posted on 01/13/2008 6:55:53 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Inquiring minds want to know.)
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