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[cati]

I have erased this post due to the fact of the replies.

 

[TheBellhop]

HOLY CRAP!

 

[MonorailDude]

WOW!!! You can't beat those facts!!!!

 

[CRB#33]

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[Tink&SquirtsMom]

Or perhaps you should have read your snopes more.... Check out what snopes.com has to say about this hoax:

Claim: Quranic verse speaks of the "wrath of the Eagle cleansing the lands of Allah."

Status: False.

Quran (9:11) -- For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.


Origins: No, this isn't a legitimate quotation from the Quran (or Koran), the sacred text of Islam. The chapter and verse citation quoted above is a leg-pull, an obvious play on the USA's (the Eagle) launching of military action against Afghanistan and Iraq (the "lands of Allah") in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on America organized by Osama bin Laden (the "son of Arabia awakening a fearsome eagle"). That the chapter and verse selection match the date of the terrorist attacks (9:11) is another giveaway to the joke.

Depending upon which translation of the Quran one uses, the section corresponding to chapter 9, verse 11 actually reads something like this:

But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/quran.asp

 

[CRB#33]

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[lucysdad]

From urbanlegends.com:

Truth be told, the word "eagle" doesn't appear anywhere in the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an. Neither, it goes without saying, does this phony verse combining American symbolism (the bald eagle is the official national emblem of the U.S.A.) with recent history and Islamic prophecy.

Verse 9:11 of the Qur'an is about repentance and reads as follows in three different English translations:

* But (even so), if they repent, establish regular prayers, and practise regular charity, they are your brethren in Faith: (thus) do We explain the Signs in detail, for those who understand.

* But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion. We detail Our revelations for a people who have knowledge.

* But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know.

 

[MonorailDude]

I still don't think that it is a coincidince. God is past, present, and FUTURE.

 

[CRB#33]

Hey! Guess I better erase my reply then

 

[MonorailDude]

Oh well. I printed it out already anyway. I think it was true though. Maybe not the bible verse but all the other stuff was most likely true.

 

[CRB#33]

I think much of it's true. The only thing I'm not sure of was whether or not the Garden of Eden was in Iraq. I don't think anyone is sure of this.

But like I said in Cati's other thread, I wish that the Koran verse actually did say what the urban legend said it did. That would make for interesting discussion with the more radical muslims.

 

[MonorailDude]

I thought that too.