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Offer: $1 million for Finding "Jerusalem" in the Koran
by Daniel Pipes
For at least four years, Jamal Badawi, an Egyptian-born Canadian professor of management at St. Mary University in Halifax, Canada, who sidelines as an apologist for radical Islam, has made a standing offer : "a million dollars to anyone who finds the word of ‘holy war' in the Qur'an." Of course, Badawi is right: the Islamic scripture includes neither the words harb muqaddasa nor any synonyms.
In the same spirit, I offer a million dollars to anyone who finds the name "Jerusalem" (Iliya , Al-Quds , Bayt al-Maqdis ), in the Koran. Metaphors, similes, allegories, allusions, deductions, and implicit references do not count (and specifically, not 17:1 ), only an accepted proper name referring to that city, using the standard Egyptian text.
And, to be perfectly clear, I will be the one and only judge of all entries to this competition. (January 4, 2006)
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Jerusalem is the second holiest place in Islam, not the third. [w/response] [162 words]
Issam
Sep 15, 2007 04:53
↔ Reply to Mr. Daniel Pipes [w/response] [337 words]
Issam
Sep 16, 2007 03:36
↔ Jerusalem [135 words]
Issam
Sep 23, 2007 15:12
↔ Heaven. [150 words]
Issam
Sep 24, 2007 17:56
↔ Israel has always belonged to the Jews- Issam. [467 words]
Ynnatchkah
Feb 6, 2008 18:01
↔ To Ynnatchkah [96 words]
Issam
Feb 7, 2008 18:30
↔ No Proof at all- But Bogus. [304 words]
Ynnatchkah
Feb 8, 2008 22:48
↔ To Ynnatchkah [596 words]
Issam
Feb 16, 2008 09:23
↔ Al Taqyia on muhamad. [349 words]
Ynnatchkah
Feb 19, 2008 14:43
jerusalem never islamic [113 words]
Phil Greend
May 28, 2007 01:03
↔ Wow. Huge dissagreement. [363 words]
Anna
Dec 15, 2007 00:19
FACTS, not opinions! [48 words]
johnny
Jan 3, 2007 14:20
Jerusalem in Koran [190 words]
Raqib Ahmed Asif
Sep 19, 2006 05:45
↔ Muslim patience running out [373 words]
Humble infidel
Jan 10, 2007 19:27
↔ In Reply To Humble Infidel [69 words]
Seamus MacNemi
Jun 12, 2007 03:25
↔ MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING [209 words]
alhagie
Dec 7, 2007 15:12
↔ A rare example of honesty and truth !!! [149 words]
Jaladhi
Feb 7, 2008 10:49
↔ Are you kidding? [214 words]
Islamosceptic
Mar 30, 2008 13:30
ABOUT (Iliya, Al-Quds, Bayt al-Maqdis), [117 words]
ALI
Apr 24, 2006 14:45
Pointless challenge [179 words]
Taj Ashaheed
Apr 3, 2006 17:20
↔ 2000 year old "Dead Sea Scroll", written in Arabic [46 words]
M. Levy
May 25, 2006 22:57
↔ Missing the point [106 words]
Y
Dec 24, 2006 04:44
↔ Jerusalem is mentioned in 8:127 [33 words]
Issam
Sep 15, 2007 05:05
↔ Jerusalem is spiritually important in Islam [85 words]
Issam
Sep 15, 2007 08:14
answer of the question [15 words]
ziba
Apr 3, 2006 01:40
The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem [17 words]
ajm
Jan 9, 2006 07:21
Al-aqsa mosque is Quran [w/response] [209 words]
Ali
Jan 8, 2006 02:46
↔ Al-aqsa mosque is Quran" (sic) [240 words]
Lactantius
Jan 9, 2006 04:35
↔ The Al-aqsa mosque mentioned in the Quran could not be in Jerusalem... [98 words]
yusuf
Jan 9, 2006 09:01
↔ yusuf, reality check, please? [16 words]
Omar Kaj
Jan 10, 2007 18:27
↔ AL-AQSA / PALESTINE IN THE QURAN [96 words]
ADAM
Apr 4, 2007 18:46
↔ AL-AQSA & PALESTINE - IN THE QURAN [w/response] [271 words]
ADAM MUSTAFA
Apr 6, 2007 13:07
↔ Any place of worship is called a mosque. [94 words]
Issam
Sep 15, 2007 05:12
↔ aqsa [16 words]
Mohandez
May 10, 2008 22:56
"Jerusalem's not there and never was Muhammad" [655 words]
Lactantius
Jan 6, 2006 08:56
↔ Jerusalem [16 words]
Bernardo Rawnicki
Jan 6, 2006 17:54
↔ Very informative post [17 words]
Milton
Jan 6, 2006 23:19
↔ first mosque [138 words]
Sulaman
Jan 8, 2006 03:38
↔ Where was the "farthest mosque"? [143 words]
Kevin Snapp
Jan 8, 2006 20:23
↔ the furthest mosque [15 words]
marial
Jan 8, 2006 23:54
↔ Neatly done, Lactantius [19 words]
Earl
Jan 9, 2006 10:15
↔ But what about---? [186 words]
john w. mcginley
Jan 29, 2006 19:24
↔ Do some real research [73 words]
d
Feb 8, 2006 20:56
↔ Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa [318 words]
David
Mar 19, 2006 12:15
↔ What about 3:96 of the Holy Quran? [314 words]
Mohideen Ibramsha
Jun 23, 2006 07:07
↔ ALLAH IS LOVE [29 words]
LARRY CLEMONSQ
Sep 12, 2006 09:00
↔ d, thank you [4 words]
Omar Kaj
Jan 10, 2007 11:05
↔ the prophet did go on miraj [29 words]
subhan
May 5, 2007 11:27
↔ It's so easy [42 words]
Misha
Jan 1, 2008 17:36
↔ ok [9 words]
jodie
Feb 6, 2008 12:18
↔ Jesus not in OT, but why does that mater? [53 words]
Jack
May 14, 2008 19:26
$1 million for Finding "Jerusalem" in the Torah [w/response] [14 words]
Nabeel
Jan 6, 2006 08:03
↔ Find me the name "Jesus" in the OT [32 words]
Robert
Jan 30, 2006 14:32
↔ find jesus' name in the old testement [220 words]
countenay
Mar 7, 2007 18:43
↔ To those who are true to the true faith of Israel [79 words]
Seamus MacNemi
Jun 12, 2007 18:07
What's the Point? [w/response] [39 words]
John
Jan 5, 2006 11:52
↔ "Palestine" is also not in the Quran.. [38 words]
Yoseph
Jan 6, 2006 12:39
↔ Origin of the name "Palestine" [613 words]
Lactantius
Jan 9, 2006 07:22
↔ ALLAH IS GOING TO TAKE BACK THE WORLD AND THE MUSLEMS IS THE SERVANTS OF ALLAH [46 words]
ALLAH IS TAKING THE WORLD AND THE DEVIL CAN'T STOP HIM
Sep 12, 2006 09:18
↔ unity, belief & propaganda [57 words]
mohammad yaqoub gowon
Sep 22, 2006 10:06
↔ PALESTINE [43 words]
ADNAN
Aug 29, 2007 21:51
Finding the unicorn [106 words]
Ianus
Jan 5, 2006 10:53
Israel in the Koran. [456 words]
Genivald
Jan 4, 2006 22:21
↔ ISLAM APOCALYPSE CRITICISM BY NON-MUSLIM'S [728 words]
MOHAMMAD YAQOUB GOWON
Oct 13, 2006 11:38
Find & Replace All [14 words]
lemmy
Jan 4, 2006 20:32
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