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Post by starkiller on Dec 21, 2010 13:08:09 GMT -6
Koran Written In Saddam Hussein's Blood Poses Problem For Iraqi Leaders naturalplane.blogspot.com/HP - The Guardian reports that Iraqi leaders are struggling to come up with a solution to dealing with a Koran that Saddam Hussein commissioned...written in his own blood. Iraqi leaders have worked to erase lingering memories and artifacts of Saddam's brutal rule, but they are mystified with what to do with with valuable relic. The unique Koran's creation took over two years: It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety. Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur'an. But since the fall of Baghdad, almost eight years ago, it has stayed largely out of sight - locked away behind three vaulted doors. It is the one part of the ousted tyrant's legacy that Iraq has simply not known what to do with. Slate notes that Saddam was never one for subtlety, and that this undertaking would serve propaganda purposes for when the dictator need to be seen as pious; he "decided to show the world that he was willing to literally sacrifice his blood for the sake of his religion." Saddam himself dedicated the book to God: "My life has been full of dangers in which I should have lost a lot of blood...but since I have bled only a little, I asked somebody to write God's words with my blood in gratitude," President Saddam Hussein said in a letter published in the official media.
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Post by skywalker on Dec 21, 2010 13:24:15 GMT -6
That sounds like something a bloodthirsty dictator would do. I wonder what they are going to do with it? They obviously are not going to destroy it and they don't seem to want to keep it. What other choices are there?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2010 17:09:47 GMT -6
Burn it.
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Post by starkiller on Dec 23, 2010 0:41:52 GMT -6
Burn it. I say jump up and down on it and then burn it.
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Dec 23, 2010 0:52:11 GMT -6
That wouldn't be very nice. We must reach out to people of other races and religions and blah, blah, blah...
There is no way in Hezbollah that they are going to burn it or destroy it because it would violate their religious beliefs. They don't want to keep it either because Saddam was not a very nice dude.
Personally, I really don't think that it should be destroyed because it might actually become a historical artifact someday. Just think...the Islamic religion's holiest book written in the blood of a barbaric dictator who murdered Allah knows how many hundreds of thousands of people. Sounds kind of fitting for some reason...
Maybe what they should do is seal it up in a water tight container so it won't be damaged and bury it with the Saddam's body. That way they could get rid of it without damaging it.
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Post by bewildered on Feb 6, 2011 10:34:23 GMT -6
Is this actually real, or some kind of urban legend or myth? Evidence points to Hussein as being a secular dictator in every sense of the word; he in fact persecuted the more devout Muslim factions in Iraq...he was hated by the theocratic Iranian establishment for this very thing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2011 10:49:38 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Feb 6, 2011 13:07:39 GMT -6
There is no way that any Muslim will allow it to be destroyed simply because it is a copy of the Koran. That is totally against their faith. That doesn't mean that it is priceless though. It may not be worth anything if nobody is willing to pay for it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2011 13:57:39 GMT -6
It has 'historic' value and value to collectors. People collect Nazi memorabilia (tasteless and disgusting to me) and other relics from bloody eras and some of it is worth millions. I imagine his bloody legacy is also. It's a tad sad that we can place a value on the macabre. My great, great uncle's car, riddled with bullet holes, is in a casino museum outside of Vegas..people just love to stare at it Two people died horrible deaths in it and people look close to see if they can spot the blood... What 'we' (collectively as a people) value is often very disturbing to me.
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Post by auntym on Feb 16, 2011 21:39:01 GMT -6
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