RAYMOND IBRAHIM ON "THE KORAN DISCOVERY - RATIONAL WESTERNERS VERSUS IRRATIONAL MUSLIMS"!!!

Koran Discovery: Rational Westerners vs. Irrational Muslims

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/koran-discovery-rational-westerners-vs-irrational-muslims/ The media is abuzz with news that a portion of the Koran, which Muslims believe was first recited by their prophet, Muhammad, may actually predate Muhammad himself. Many seem to think that such news will have a large impact on the Muslim world and make Muslims rethink the veracity of their faith. Thus Tom Holland, a British historian, asserts, “It destabilizes, to put it mildly, the idea that we can know anything with certainty about how the Koran emerged. And that, in turn, has implications for the historicity of Mohammed and his followers.” A Koranic manuscript consultant at Oxford’s Bodleian Library, Dr. Keith Small, is more emphatic and “told the Times that if the dating is confirmed, as he believed would happen, it could raise serious problems for Islam,” since “This would radically alter the edifice of Islamic tradition. The history of the rise of Islam in late Near Eastern antiquity would have to be completely revised.” Nonsense. This recent discovery, far from threatening “the edifice of Islamic tradition” or “rais[ing] problems for Islam” is currently being used all around the Muslim world in support of Islam, for a number of reasons.... KEEP READING ALSO WATCH NEW VIDEO: Do Islam and Nazi Germany Have Something in Common? Raymond Ibrahim on the Glazov Gang