A False Koran

If you’re a non-Muslim, and you wish to stay alive, you don’t mess with the Koran. You don’t insult it or damage it. You don’t even touch it with your ungloved hands.

And you especially don’t rewrite it.

However, it appears that someone has done exactly that. And, needless to say, the world’s 7.5 octillion Muslims are upset about it. According to the Jordanian news site Fact International:

New ‘False’ Quran in Kuwait

A new ‘false’ Quran is being distributed in Kuwait, which urges blasphemy and the destruction of the religion of Muslims by using satanic verses.

Two American Newspapers, ‘Omega 2001’ and ‘One Press,’ had supervised the translating and publishing of the ‘false’ Koran by two people, who called themselves “Al Saffi and Al Mahdi.”

“They dedicated it to the Arab Nation, especially to the Islamic Nation in general.”

The claimed ‘True Furqan,’ as it is called, contains 366 pages; it is translated into Arabic and English and distributed to ‘smart students’ in foreign and private schools.

These schools have become fertile places for these preachers and destroyers of the Islamic religion in order to affect and deceive our sons and daughters. In addition it spreads the destruction of culture in the minds of the next generation who represent the ambition of the nation and leaders of the future.

It is a ‘cold war’ that the enemy aggressively utilizes to attack our sons and the Islamic nation.

The false Koran starts with a introduction which urges for the freedom of the religions through repetitive Christian messages which claim that the ‘True Furqan’ is essential for human beings who need to see ‘the light,’ regardless of his color, gender, nation and religion.

It includes 77 fabricated verses and a conclusion, such as ‘Al Fatehah, the Love, the Christ, the Trinity, the Crucifixion, the adultery, the Shepherds, the Bible, the Legends, the Blasphemers, the Paradise, Al Adha and the Martyr.

The claimed Koran starts by mentioning the Name of God as ‘Al Basmalah,’ which combines the three religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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The falsifying of the verses of the Holy Koran, reaches a climax when it is stated that “You have deceived us with your lies, that we have forbidden fighting during the Hijri Month, then we copied what has been forbidden and allowed the great fighting.”

The ‘Christ Sura,’ which had been written by their sinful hands, includes “You claimed that the Bible is false, so you ignored the majority of its contents.”

With this, they condemned the Holy Koran for scandalizing their efforts to forge the Bible and the Old Testament.

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Then, they equate between the purity, the cunning, and sins in the Purity Sura, they falsify the sayings of God by the following lies: “The impurity, the menstruation, the dejection, the ablution, the marriage, the abandonment, the hitting, the divorce and the adultery are allowed in our religion.”

These are their intentions, to falsify our Holy Koran, the verses of Allah the Greatest and pursue their false Bible and the false ‘True Furqan,’ but they will not achieve that.

This is pretty strong stuff from a Muslim point of view. The idea of Christians tinkering with the world of Allah is more than enough to make mujahid blood boil.

So who’s responsible for The True Furqan?

I did some work with the search engines this evening, and found out a little bit about the book. The True Furqan is for sale on Amazon, and it also has a website, islam-exposed.org, where it can be read chapter by chapter. It does indeed put forward the notion of a Trinity, includes the Beatitudes, and contains other Christian elements.

However, there are very few mentions of “Omega 2001” and “One Press” to be found online. And, interestingly enough, most of the internet references to the book are on websites expressing Muslim outrage. There are at least two petitions against it, the first calling for the book’s website to be shut down, and the second… Well, the second one just expresses pious outrage.

I ran a domain-name check at WhoIs.com on “islam-exposed.org”, and the owner is listed as Dr. Anis Shorrosh. Dr. Shorrosh is a Jordanian-born Palestinian Christian evangelist who is now based in the United States. At his website you will find an acknowledgement that he and his wife are the authors of The True Furqan.

So this seems to be a Christian disinformation operation intended to rile up the “Muslim street”.

But disinformation on whose behalf? Nothing could be better calculated to increase the persecution of Christians within Muslim-majority countries, regardless of what Dr. Shorrosh may have intended.

The book appeared in 2001. Why did it lie dormant until the spring of 2009? Why is it suddenly appearing now in private schools in Kuwait where it is being distributed to “smart students”?

A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…


Hat tip: TB.