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  • A guy who recently used what was supposed to be a medical meeting at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to deliver what Washington journalist Charles Krauthammer described as "an hour-long disquisition on what he called the Koranic view of military service, jihad and war ... (including) an allegedly authoritative elaboration of the punishments visited upon nonbelievers - consignment to hell, decapitation, having hot oil poured down your throat."

    Orangeville Claire Hoy 2009

  • His was an hourlong disquisition on what he called the Koranic view of military service, jihad and war.

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

  • ■ Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal carried a remarkable story about a new twist in Koranic studies [link may work only for subscribers].

    Stromata Blog: 2008

  • ■ Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal carried a remarkable story about a new twist in Koranic studies [link may work only for subscribers].

    Noted in Passing 2008

  • ■ Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal carried a remarkable story about a new twist in Koranic studies [link may work only for subscribers].

    Travel 2008

  • “Ayát al-Naját,” certain Koranic verses which act as talismans, such as, “And wherefore should we not put our trust in Allah?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Ghusl-ablution from defilement342; the Traditional ordinance that entereth into the Koranic, is the separation of the fingers and the thick beard; 343 and that, wherewith all Koranic ordinances are completed, is circumcision.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Noting that books, however holy, don't feel pain - "Koranic waste management is the least of it" - Hoffman moves on to the real stuff.

    rotten fruit 2005

  • "We very often come across this kind of child trafficking practised by so-called Koranic masters who profit from the naivety of certain parents to take their children from them," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • When launching his own genocidal campaign against the (mainly Sunni) people of Kurdistan — a campaign that involved the thoroughgoing use of chemical atrocity weapons and the murder and deportation of hundreds of thousands of people — he had called it “OperationAnfal,” borrowing by this term a Koranic justification — “The Spoils” of sura 8 — for the despoilment and destruction of nonbelievers.

    'God Is Not Great' 2007

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