[lit-ideas] Re: What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Koran
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:36:17 -0000
Is this an instance of two nations divided by a common language?
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From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:19 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: What Thomas Jefferson learned from the
Koran
> Judy: Incidentally it had never occurred to me to wonder why
> Jefferson needed a copy of the Koran. Why shouldn't he have
> a copy? Why shouldn't anyone?
>
>
> Some notions:
>
> * Someone might reject the Koran as an inferior religious
> scripture that, compared to the twelve major Upanishads, is
> a Pleistocene wall painting.
>
> * Someone might have taken their copy of the Koran and
> burned it in public to show displeasure with abuses
> exercised in its name and as an exercise in personal freedom.
>
> * Someone might have loaned their copy of the Koran to a
> friend who was killed in a terrorist attack, and not want to
> replace it.
>
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