Can i have my million dollars now?

Reader comment on item: Offer: $1 million for Finding "Jerusalem" in the Koran

Submitted by Bob (Lebanon), Sep 30, 2009 at 18:43

The dinner table[5.21] O my people! enter the holy land which Allah has prescribed for you and turn not on your backs for then you will turn back losers. Holy land, thats Jerusalem.In Arabic الارض المقدسة Can i have my million dollars now?

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Daniel Pipes replies:

You yourself translate الارض المقدسة as "holy land" and not as "Jerusalem." So, nice try but no milliion.