Has the pope sent the Catholic church back ten centuries by authorising wars against Muslims again?

What next? Inquisitions perhaps?

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Biggest joke of all is

the alleged 'holy lands' is in Arabia

In fact, there's a little known book about it.  The author claims the reason they've never been able to find many of the Biblical locations in Palestine (now partly Israel) is because those names were mistranslated

It's an interesting book:  ' The Bible Came from Arabia' by Kamal Salibi ... Radical Reinterpretation of Old Testament Geography'

From the back cover:
'Kamal Salibi, professor of history at the American University of Beirut, reveals startling linguistic evidence which controversially suggest that Judaism originated not in Palestine but in West Arabia

Whilst looking at a gazeteer of Saudi place names, he noticed a remarkable concentration of Biblical place names in an area 600km long by 200 km wide - Asir.  Ancient Hebrew, like Arabic, ws written without vowels.  Salibi believed that scholars of the sixth century might have added the vowels wrongly when standardizing texts, and so he went back to the original unvowelled texts, and so he went back to the original unvowelled Old Testament to prove his theory -- and it did

The geography of Palestine has never corresponded in any way to the apparently specific stories in the Bible.  Salibi's research authenticates the events as history for the first time -- but within an Arabic setting

This book has caused a predictable storm amongst academics and politicians.  The issue is of such importance that everyone should read the evidence first hand'

Publishers vied to publish the book, initially.  Then, pressure was very much brought to bear and the original publishers backed out.  After considerable time, Salibi found a publisher brave enough to publish his findings.  But very few are even aware the book exists and even less are aware of Asir and the role it plays in history


The title's above, plus author

ISBN 0 330 29519 5  (English language version)

My edition's by Pan Books

Every attempt is made by paid-to-posts to dissuade people from reading the book.  Which means you should


Just imagine if the contents of the book, namely that the 'holy lands' lies in Arabia, became common knowledge

just imagine

freediver wrote on Mar 16^th, 2015 at 9:21pm:


Similarities between the US and Nazis:

*both have at some stage have been enthusiastic supporters of eugenics
*use of concentration camps
*overambitious invasions of Eastern nations that turned to disaster.
*reliance on propaganda
*extermination of ethnic minorities.

Julius Abbott wrote on Mar 16^th, 2015 at 11:47pm:


Did you know that Muhammed once slaughtered about 800 unarmed Jewish POWs in one day. According to Gandalf they deserved it for being scheming Jews.

freediver wrote on Mar 16^th, 2015 at 9:21pm:

True... But it does reveal that maybe the Vatican (and the pope) are only a nudge away from their medieval ancestors in advocating 'Holy War'... Not much of a step away from Islamic Ayatollahs.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Mar 17^th, 2015 at 10:50pm:


If you are going to talk in steps that big, we are all one step away.

freediver wrote on Mar 19^th, 2015 at 8:08am:

Maybe, but we're not all the ordained Vicar of Christ.