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Vampyroteuthis · 08-07-2008, 07:41 AM

Did anyone else watch this? I was about 2 hours and I thought it was pretty good and interesting. I wonder if someone will try to blow up the History Channel now?

elevator · 08-07-2008, 08:48 AM

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Did anyone else watch this? I was about 2 hours and I thought it was pretty good and interesting. I wonder if someone will try to blow up the History Channel now?

I missed it. I have been searching both the History Channel and the History International sites, but was unable to find a show called "Inside the Koran". Do you perhaps have a link to future air dates?

I need to get a DVR... :Cheeky:

Vampyroteuthis · 08-07-2008, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Vampyroteuthis

Did anyone else watch this? I was about 2 hours and I thought it was pretty good and interesting. I wonder if someone will try to blow up the History Channel now?

I missed it. I have been searching both the History Channel and the History International sites, but was unable to find a show called "Inside the Koran". Do you perhaps have a link to future air dates?

I need to get a DVR... :Cheeky:

Sorry, I could be confused and it may have been on the National Geographic Channel. They blur together for me!! I will look at home though.

Thanks!

Toto · 08-07-2008, 10:27 AM

Press release - it says it was on the National Geographic Channel, which has a blog about it here

The Shi'a felt it misrepresented them.

elevator · 08-07-2008, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

Press release - it says it was on the National Geographic Channel, which has a blog about it here

The Shi'a felt it misrepresented them.

Thanks. I'll be keeping my eyes open for the encore.

mg01 · 08-07-2008, 03:20 PM

Here is an article from 1999 in "The Atlantic" with some good summary information.

Agenda07 · 08-08-2008, 07:04 AM

I caught most of it on Channel 4 when it was broadcast in the UK; I can't say I was terribly impressed. There were several occasions when they repeated standard Islamic dogmas as fact even though they were manifestly untrue, such as claiming that there's only one version of the Qur'an (we know that there were about seven variants shortly after the time of Mohammed IIRC, and three different ones are still in widespread use around the world today), and although they highlighted contradictory messages regarding violence they didn't even touch on the distinction between Medinan and Meccan sura.

I didn't watch the final fifteen minutes though, so it could be that I'm being unfair.

Minimalist · 08-08-2008, 05:57 PM

I watched it.

What most impressed me was that, as with xtianity and its bible, one can find some support in it for any act of lunacy one wishes to advance within its pages.

Thus, one group can put women in beekeeper suits ( as Bill Maher says) and bar them from mosques while another allows unveiled women to worship alongside men in mosques and both sides can accuse the other of blasphemy.

Ain't religion grand?

blastula · 08-11-2008, 01:43 AM

It's repeating on NGC on 8/12 at 2pm. On my cable at least.

Roger Pearse · 08-11-2008, 02:36 AM

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we know that there were about seven variants shortly after the time of Mohammed IIRC, and three different ones are still in widespread use around the world today

Interesting -- tell me more.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

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08-07-2008, 10:27 AM	#4
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	Press release - it says it was on the National Geographic Channel, which has a blog about it here The Shi'a felt it misrepresented them.

08-07-2008, 03:20 PM	#6
mg01 Regular Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 197	Here is an article from 1999 in "The Atlantic" with some good summary information.

08-08-2008, 07:04 AM	#7
Agenda07 Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: England Posts: 135	I caught most of it on Channel 4 when it was broadcast in the UK; I can't say I was terribly impressed. There were several occasions when they repeated standard Islamic dogmas as fact even though they were manifestly untrue, such as claiming that there's only one version of the Qur'an (we know that there were about seven variants shortly after the time of Mohammed IIRC, and three different ones are still in widespread use around the world today), and although they highlighted contradictory messages regarding violence they didn't even touch on the distinction between Medinan and Meccan sura. I didn't watch the final fifteen minutes though, so it could be that I'm being unfair.

08-08-2008, 05:57 PM	#8
Minimalist Veteran Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 1,808	I watched it. What most impressed me was that, as with xtianity and its bible, one can find some support in it for any act of lunacy one wishes to advance within its pages. Thus, one group can put women in beekeeper suits ( as Bill Maher says) and bar them from mosques while another allows unveiled women to worship alongside men in mosques and both sides can accuse the other of blasphemy. Ain't religion grand?

08-11-2008, 01:43 AM	#9
blastula Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USA Posts: 6,070	It's repeating on NGC on 8/12 at 2pm. On my cable at least.

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