Amna Al-Sharqi has dared to take up this challenge, albeit unwittingly:
“And if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to our servant, then produce a sura like it.” (Qur’an 2:23)
“Say, ‘If mankind and the jinn gathered in order to produce the like of this Qur’an, they could not produce anything like it, even if they were to act as each other’s assistants.'” (Qur’an 17:88)
In any case, this is yet another look at where the U.S. and the rest of the West is heading.
“Tunisia arrests young woman who made up fake Quran verses about coronavirus,” The New Arab, May 6, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Tunisian authorities have arrested a young woman for publishing fake verses of the Quran about the novel coronavirus.
Amna Al-Sharqi will be investigated by the Tunisian public prosecution, El Bashayer reported, for posting a text on her Facebook page entitled “Surah Corona”.
Al-Sharqi sparked outrage on social media for the fake verses and even received death threats.
Tunisian public opinion was reportedly divided, with a majority demanding Al-Sharqi be tried for the “desecration of the Quran”, according to El Bashayer.
A minority of Tunisians voiced the opinion that her act falls under freedom of expression.
Al-Sharqi confirmed that she had received death threats for writing the text.
She said on Facebook that what she had published was not a distortion of the Quran, stressing that it did not include the word “God” or “religion”….
mortimer says
Islam defends itself by constantly MOVING THE GOALPOSTS so that Muslims are permitted to win every contest.
Islam does this by first SETTING THE RULE (‘produce a sura like it’ 2:23) by which a person may score a goal and then, secondly, by PASSING A DEATH SENTENCE FOR BLASPHEMY if the person responds to the Koranic invitation in 2:23 !
No one is allowed to debate or refute Islam in public. That is because Islam is unhistorical, unscientific, obscurantist and self-referentially incoherent.
No argument is available by which Islam may defend itself. Islam depends on the Fallacy of the Appeal to Violence to defend itself … ‘believe what we tell you or we’ll kill you’.
Muslims have quit debating Robert Spencer because he knows more about Islam than the mullahs and they always lose.
FYI says
Speaking of moving the goalposts..an excellent metaphor for islamic “scholars”..
Arguing with an islamic “scholar” is like trying to play a game of soccer whilst the opposing team constantly keeps moving the goalposts to different places and whilst constantly varying the diameter of the goalpost and then pretending there is no ball.
islamic “scholars” use a number of tactics.
1]lying{sanctioned by the koran k3:28}we know the dissembling tricks they use:taqqiya,tawriya,taysin.kitman,muruna,darura or as we might call it “bearing FALSE witness”
2]the fiddle the Arabic trick
{“Oh you couldn’t possibly understand Classical Arabic..”.Only muslim “scholars”,even if they are illiterate claim to be the only ones who can understand the koran.This is hogwash}
3]islamic whataboutery
What about this,what about that?what about Jews,what about christians?Muslim “scholars” change the subject to avoid answering the question.
Then they’ll post a video showing how they won the “debate”{Debate,what debate?}
4]Attack the Bible
This is idiotic given that allah confirms the Bible k3:3,even condemns those who attack the Gospel as evil koran 5:46-57 and tells muhamed to consult those who know the Bible koran 10:94
When muslims attack the Bible they PROVE they don’t know their own koran.
It is unlikely the ‘holy’ gentlemen in the above photo,like their “prophet”, can even read what is in the koran{‘hey look at these squiggles..they must be holy and of some great significance .”}
gravenimage says
+1
Mike Gardner says
There’s an interesting parallel to this in modern-day China. Among the more successful fear-inducement tactics employed to forestall independent action that may tend to insurrection is one that me and my fellow Westerners referred to as “let’s make a regulation.” If on-scene law enforcement determines that a person is engaging in an activity they want to prevent, but for which there’s no specific proscription in the criminal code, they concoct a bogus violation from thin air by declaring to the miscreant and all present that “there is a regulation!” and proceed without citation of any actual charge to demand that the activity cease immediately.
Muhammad from Syria says
We should strongly protect this brave woman. It seems that the more stupid a religion is….The more its believers try to defend it aggressively. Same morons destroyed 90% of the country here over some religious bullshit. Many people are trying to leave islam in the middle east but they get attacked.
Fuck islam.
marc says
You’re lying, I can see you are in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
gravenimage says
Thank you, Marc.
gravenimage says
Tunisia: Young woman arrested for publishing fake Qur’an verses about coronavirus
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Well, this is grotesque. I don’t know what her motives were–satire or otherwise–but this *should* fall under freedom of speech, which is almost completely lacking in Dar-al-Islam.
No one would be arrested in a Christian country for publishing fake Bible verses.
Wellington says
Fake verses? Ah, this is rich because the entire Koran has “fake” written all over it.
So, now we have umbrage about fakery respecting something fake from the get-go. A bit confusing but actually grimly hilarious (we’re talking very dark humor here) more than anything.
Wherever you have Islam, absurdity is lurking around a metaphorical corner, probably closer to you than you think, need or want.
zimriel says
Indeed, mostly this sura parallels sura 50 which is almost certainly a pastiche itself, of earlier suwar.
Walter Sieruk says
Contained in this jihadwatch article is sentence which reads “Tunisian authorities have arrested a young woman for publishing fake verses of the Quran about the novel coronavirus.”
The words from the Quran only reveal the brutal,cruel and vicious nature of the god of Islam,Allah.
For according to the Quran it’s Allah, the god of Islam ,who is the responsible for that starting and continuing the plague of coronavirus
What a cruel and vicious god, Allah is.
For when getting down to basic Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .
This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty of infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.
Nevertheless, all Christians and Jews shout not lose faith and heart in the God of the Bible as vicious by sending coronavirus on people.
This is because the god of Islam is should be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “
Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”
In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible. The words in brackets are my
FYI says
“Lo!I am Yallah and mahmoood is my “prophet”.LoL!
These words are certainly true and cannot be disputed.
my religion is the religion of peace and if you disagree, i’ll kill you.
if you dare to leave my religion i’ll kill you but apart from that you are free{except no music,no art,no literature.And don’t you dare study science..}
If you don’t convert to my true religion you’ll be forced to pay a tax but
don’t worry “there is no compulsion in my religion”
women must wear a bag on their heads as they are only HALF the value of a man and have a deficiency of the mind.
There are no mishtakes in my perefct book so don’t go looking for dem…
cos if you do that would mean my bboook and my word are not perefct.
Too bad if you don’t understand classical Arabic.
i am Yallah ,the god with TWO Right hands
i am Yallah the champion deceiver:you can trust me”
Is that some divinely inspired revelation?
Of course not.I just made it up and PRETENDED it was divinely inspired.
Just like the author of the koran does.
{No point asking the “scholars” of islam:they have had about 1,400 years to study their ‘holy’ book..
and it never occurred to them to follow allah’s advice of koran 10:94 to “consult those who know the scripture”,that is the Bible, to see if Mary{yes,that’s right Mary} is in the Christian Trinity as allah thinks in koran 5:116?..and they MISSED the egregious Theology error of the koran despite 1,400 years of muslim “scholarship”…they MISSED it..?}
FYI says
Surely some islamic “scholar” was inspired by allah’s command to muhammed..
“And if thou are in doubt concerning that which WE reveal unto thee,then question those who read the scripture that was before thee{=the BIBLE}”
koran 10:94
Since allah confirms the Bible{Torah and Gospel} in koran 3:3,surely any competent islamic expert would have checked the Bible,perhaps asking of..
1]A Christian “Is MARY in the Trinity?”{as allah insists those polytheistic Christians believe koran 5:116}
2]A Rabbi”Do Jews believe Ezra is the son of allah?”{as allah insists in koran 9:30}
Apparently not:for had they done this, they would have seen that the koran is in ERROR,not the Bible.
Mary is NOT in the Trinity and no Jews believe in anyone called Ezra claiming to be the son of allah.
allah confirms the Bible {k3:3}but the Bible does not confirm the koran.
The koran in fact contradicts and denies what is in the Bible:allah of course MISSED the Golden Rule,the Holy Spirit,the 2 Chief Commandments…all of which are in the Bible but which are all absent/denied/contradicted by the koran.
The Bible:shows the PRESENCE of the Holy Spirit and teaches obedience to the Law{=2 chief commandments +Decalogogue of Exodus chpt20}
The koran:shows the ABSENCE of the Holy Spirit{which is why the “perfect” koran is so full of errors}and teaches disobedience to the Law.
Bible scholars or Christian apologists,when looking at the koran:you’ll need the assistance of the Holy Spirit to see this.Academic qualifications are fine of course but you WILL need this wisdom to understand things.And it is freely given}