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India-Pakistan
World's largest Quran on display
2006-05-10
Oooooh! Mom! Take me there!
Now the 41,417th most holy relic in Islam.
SIALKOT: The district government has displayed the world's largest Quran for public view in Sialkot city made by a Gujranwala-based engineer, Javaid Iqbal. Talking to reporters, Javaid Iqbal said the total weight of the 202-page holy book, which is made of stainless steel, is 9,000 kilogrammes, while the weight of each page is 70 kilogrammes. The book is eight feet long and four feet wide. Iqbal said it took two and a half years to prepare it in collaboration with philanthropists from Sialkot and Gujranwala at a total cost of Rs 8.5 million. An audio system is also installed. He said the Quran would soon be sent to Masjid-e-Nabvi as a gift to Saudi Arabia.
"Yo! Abdullah! Where y'want us to put this nine-ton Koran?"
"Put it over there, with the others!"
Is it blasphemy if it rains and the sucker begins to rust?
Posted by:Fred

#19  Where's the accompanying giant toilet?
Posted by: Captain America   2006-05-10 17:30  

#18  Copy cats!
Posted by: Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov   2006-05-10 15:23  

#17  got the GPS coordinates locked in yet??????

being metal it should hold deat real good, making for a good infra red taret.

thinking out loud is all.......
Posted by: USN, ret.   2006-05-10 14:35  

#16  It's the Islamic version of an iPod.
Posted by: Spot   2006-05-10 13:28  

#15  Ooooooh bigger holy verses....for me to poop on!!!
Posted by: Triumph   2006-05-10 13:27  

#14  It does rain in Arabia. Not often, but... Mr. Wife had a colleague they called the Rain Godd. Every time he went over there, it would rain. We're talking soil so dry that nothing was absorbed, a foot or more of water running in the streets. And all the production chemicals were stored in the open next to the production area -- either rained upon from above or soaked from below.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-05-10 13:00  

#13  Just think, some day some of our military youths will be shooting 50 cal holes in it. And a future president may demand; Mister Abdul-a-dulha-dulhabulha, tear down that quran.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-05-10 11:26  

#12  An 'Audio System is also installed'? I don't even know what to say to that...
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-05-10 10:16  

#11  It would be amusing if the text is the original version, not the modified version now imposed by the Saudis on all who come for the Haj. We've seen articles here about the thousands of Korans/Qurans/Qur'ans carried by hajjis that are destroyed every year because they contain illustrations or passages the Wahhabis have decided are unacceptable.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-05-10 09:35  

#10  And the wimmins must carry one that's half as heavy.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-05-10 09:07  

#9  the total weight of the 202-page holy book, which is made of stainless steel, is 9,000 kilogrammes

Every Moslem must have one with him---at all times.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-05-10 09:05  

#8  Stainless steel and 9 tons? Here I thought it came in a roll, weighed a few ounces, and had individually perforated sheets pages.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-05-10 07:46  

#7  possible sink trap warning....

World's largest Quran on display

Let's take the worlds largest group piss on it!
»:-)

Posted by: RD   2006-05-10 04:36  

#6  Lets let some LA taggers loose on it.
Posted by: Oldspook   2006-05-10 03:06  

#5  And me without a blast furnace ....
Posted by: AzCat   2006-05-10 02:27  

#4  About as useful as the world's largest microprocessor.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-05-10 01:05  

#3  SACRILEDGE! (If mo coudn't carry it, it's an abomination!) Time to seethe! Death to the infidel stainless steel metal workers! A fatwa on Iqbal and the philanthropists!
Posted by: Inspector Clueso   2006-05-10 00:43  

#2  Isn't this idolatry?
Posted by: ed   2006-05-10 00:26  

#1  Rains? In Soddy Ah-Rabies?

Though, some H2SO4 rain would be nice for a change. ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-05-10 00:25  

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