Heather Frank
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I realize everyone else is being all sober and world affairs politico about the consequences of modern Islam, but at this point I'd just like to point out a really mundane literary fact about the Al Koran, which is that it's an unoriginal derivative highly condensed "Reader's Digest" type version of the Bible, printed in bite sized polemics referring beck to Old Testament incidents and God-Man interactions without either direct quotations or citations with attribution.
The "Al Quaran" is essentially a hodgepodge of polemic references to stories such as the flood of Noah and the stargazing of Abraham, with a howl and a scream from the alleged prophet that the audience has forgotten the tale. Liberally interspersed and interpolated into the plagiarized narrative are howling screeches about polytheism, who can and can't marry who and yells about riding to war instantly against anyone who doesn't believe in Muhammad and respect his illiterate foreshortened "box of talklelts" about the "prophets of old".
Forget, for a moment, all the high minded Phd in Theology and Divinity stuff about the separate covenant with Ishmael, and who is and isn't a prophet. The Al Koran is simply plagiarized, and in a deeply uneducated illiterate style at that.
The "Al Quaran" is essentially a hodgepodge of polemic references to stories such as the flood of Noah and the stargazing of Abraham, with a howl and a scream from the alleged prophet that the audience has forgotten the tale. Liberally interspersed and interpolated into the plagiarized narrative are howling screeches about polytheism, who can and can't marry who and yells about riding to war instantly against anyone who doesn't believe in Muhammad and respect his illiterate foreshortened "box of talklelts" about the "prophets of old".
Forget, for a moment, all the high minded Phd in Theology and Divinity stuff about the separate covenant with Ishmael, and who is and isn't a prophet. The Al Koran is simply plagiarized, and in a deeply uneducated illiterate style at that.