For Plato, and Mo is another victim of the religion of peace and Arabian imperialism!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 6, 2007 at 06:51

Hi Plato

Thank you for your remarks, and yes I know my Arabic. And yes I can always learn more.

As for Mo he is most likely another victim of this so called: the Hafiz thing.

In India and pakistan muslims emulate Hindus who can recite the Hindu holy books and in the case of Muslims they have their so called Hafiz. These poor children sit in madrassas for hours on end memorizing a book, the Qur'an that is, which is written in a language that they do not know and they are told that this will be a great thing to do for their Allah! And from the way he transliterates Quranic material, it becomes very clear to me that he has no clue about actual words, grammar or even syntax. So he recites then wrongly transliterates and then he examines a translation that is more likely than not a poor transaltion and then pontificate about what the Qur'an is really saying. Very sad indeed.

What is even more sad is that we have a madrassa here in NYC, in Queens, where we have tablighees from India teaching kids of Pakistani origin how to become a hafiz! Shame indeed.

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