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IN 1972, during the restoration of the Great Mosque of Sana'a, in Yemen, laborers working in a loft between the structure's inner and outer roofs stumbled across a remarkable gravesite, although they did not realize it at the time. Their ignorance was excusable: mosques do not normally house graves, and this site contained no tombstones, no human remains, no funereal jewelry. It contained nothing more, in fact, than an unappealing mash of old parchment and paper documents—damaged books and individual pages of Arabic text, fused together by centuries of rain and dampness, gnawed into over the years by rats and insects.
Some of the parchment pages in the Yemeni hoard seemed to date back to the seventh and eighth centuries A.D., or Islam's first two centuries—they were fragments, in other words, of perhaps the oldest Korans in existence. What's more, some of these fragments revealed small but intriguing aberrations from the standard Koranic text. Such aberrations, though not surprising to textual historians, are troublingly at odds with the orthodox Muslim belief that the Koran as it has reached us today is quite simply the perfect, timeless, and unchanging Word of God. MORE |  | |
Jew are animals & pigs from quran http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1730321267287416264
The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam, 10/23/2007 http://www.theirownwords.com/site/showvideo/52
Muslims in America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLK1Xpc7SMQ
Muslims Belgium - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-inob20I_Y0&feature=related
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