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Re:The Other France by acqq on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:53PM (#10567645)
I have the paper books of Quran in two languages and I've also given the links to the online searchable versions. I've actually marked the pages where "disbelievers" are to be "painfully punished" and only a few pages remained unmarked. It takes hours just to physically mark the all such pages! The unmarked remain only the parts where some Old Testament story is badly retold. Reading Quran is very repetitive, almost hypnotic experience. "For unbelievers" "doom" or "fire" page after page. It's not "out of the context" or "cherry picked" it's everywhere.

Have you actually read the Quran?

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Re:The Other France by jnbiche on Saturday November 14, 2015 @07:42PM (#10567972)
Out of curiosity, which translation is that? Pickthall?
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Re:The Other France by acqq on Monday November 16, 2015 @04:59PM (#10577545)
Not in English, other languages, for the English translation I've used the online sites, there are more translations available at once, I've linked that already, Pickthall is included in the results, maybe he uses the "doom" word more than others? Anyway, thanks to the online sources, the Arabic words seem to be "عذاب" and "الْحَرِيق" Yay, Unicode! For more statistics (e.g. how often exactly the "fire" is used, how often "hell") I suggest using the local copies of the texts.
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