03-20-2015, 11:37 AM | #891 | |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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03-20-2015, 12:21 PM | #892 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
The more likely origin of the Blood Quran seems to be blood taken from prisoners who were being tortured and killed. (There would certainly be no shortage of them.) Which implies a "blood of my enemies" sort of sympathetic black magic, analogous to burying a dead Viking under one's hearthstone.
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03-21-2015, 03:13 AM | #893 |
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03-21-2015, 08:03 AM | #894 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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.
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03-21-2015, 03:48 PM | #895 | |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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Is it wrong that I now think of some rich collector troll looking for numerous sorts of such problematic items?
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03-21-2015, 05:49 PM | #896 | |
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03-21-2015, 06:19 PM | #897 | |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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03-21-2015, 07:13 PM | #898 |
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That still sounds a bit disrespectful which is where the problem lies. It's an object that deserves utmost respect AND derision simultaneously.
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03-21-2015, 07:26 PM | #899 |
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03-22-2015, 09:19 PM | #900 | |
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