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Old 03-21-2015, 03:48 PM   #895
Flyndaran
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Default Re: Real-Life Weirdness

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Originally Posted by Evil Roy Slade View Post
I have read that the Blood Qu'ran presents a conundrum for Muslim theologians as blood is an unclean or impure substance in Islam and so keeping a Qu'ran written in it is haraam (sinful) while defiling or defacing a Qu'ran is also haraam. At the same time, a lot of secular authorities do not want it around as an object of Saddam's reign. Can't hang onto it, can't get rid of it, can't destroy it.
Schrodinger's moral quandary?
Is it wrong that I now think of some rich collector troll looking for numerous sorts of such problematic items?
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