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Re: Image comments for here's a conspiracy to ponder
Posted by: John_Stone
Date: 19/01/2006 11:11PM
Sorry to be a wet sock, but the Quran verse is a hoax. Leave it to Snopes to debunk BS:

Quran 9:11

Claim: Quranic verse 9:11 speaks of the "wrath of the Eagle
cleansing the lands of Allah."

Status: False.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2003]

] 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:
The chapter and verse citation reproduced in the example
block above isn't a legitimate quotation from the Quran (or
Koran), the sacred text of Islam — no such passage appears in
that book, at Chapter 9, Verse 11 or anywhere else.

This item a hoax, a leg-pull, that plays on the USA's (i.e.,
the Eagle's) launching of military action against Afghanistan
and Iraq (the "lands of Allah"winking smiley in response to the September
11 terrorist attacks on America organized by Osama bin Laden
(the "son of Arabia"winking smiley. 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.

Last updated: 11 December 2005

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