Something Foul

Submitted by Amin Riaz (United Kingdom), Nov 7, 2012 at 13:04

... A simple question of sources and references would have him really and grabbing anything.

For example the long standing "lie" around the word "Bisham" - when I asked for sources he pasted a chunk from a supposed Syriac source. But failed to post the bit where it said - that this is an Islamic formula.

This is in front of an audience whose love of islam is such that they would swallow anything - without bothering to find out the truth.

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Just one example:

"The word Allah is a loan word from Syriac Alaha/Allaha (Nestorian)."

How is it a loan word? The root is not Syriac but even older Aramaic - whose descedent all know Semitic langiages are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_%28deity%29

It is the job of the claimant to produce evidence. Form past experience this person has none.

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