11 July 2010

Part 2: NER Interview with Ibn Warraq - 72 Raisins, 1 Cold War, and 0 Virgins

Part 2 continues an interview with Warraq, a leading thinker of our time. Warraq discusses how Saudi Arabia with its 250 million dollars in grants and donations is controlling how Islam is taught and stifling Koranic research at prestigious universities in the U.K. and America.

Warraq proposes a Cold War era type independent research institute to translate criticism of Qur’anic literature by Western scholars into Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Turkish and Indonesian languages to stimulate self criticism of Islam. [The Iconoclast] Read more