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2006-04-17 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Four more pages and it would have been perfect.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-04-17 07:22|| 2006-04-17 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll bet they "fixed" it. No dull axes to be found anywhere these days.

Posted by Glaish Thotch6116 2006-04-17 07:33|| 2006-04-17 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Definitely less sense. All the poetic allusions would be gone, which is a serious problem. Not that it is understandable that way by most Arabs either.

The thing would need a boatload of footnotes.

And of course there is the problem of the rest of the literature, hadiths and sunnah.

Posted by buwaya 2006-04-17 16:22|| 2006-04-17 16:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Isn't is specifically against doctrine to translate the koran?

Posted by Mark E. 2006-04-17 18:57|| 2006-04-17 18:57|| Front Page Top

#5 The thing would need a boatload of footnotes.

Unlike the Bible?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-17 20:45|| 2006-04-17 20:45|| Front Page Top

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