How to make Berlin look like Paris

Set about having western scholars “critically evaluate” the Koran

This is a serious business. A team of researchers at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences is preparing to bring out the first installment of Corpus Coranicum – which purports to be nothing less than the first critically evaluated text of the Qur’an ever to be produced.

What this means is that the research team is in the process of analysing and transcribing some 12,000 slides of Qur’an manuscripts from the first six centuries of the text’s existence. Once that is complete, the way is open to producing a text that annotates and, presumably, provides some sort of exegesis on the differences found in the early manuscripts.

Remember, Muslims consider each copy of the Koran “The Holy Word of God” directly descended from His hand. For a non-Muslim to even touch one is forbidden. Personally, I hope the scientists used strips of bacon as bookmarks.

Anyone want to start a pool on the number of cars torched in Berlin the over next month?

Found via CCinZ