You know, talking about the Q'uran and hadiths, etc., in the context of the Palestine/Israeli conflict is mysterious to me. It rarely happened 40 years ago, not even sure how often it happens now....
emity -----what rarely happened 40 years ago? Talking about the Koran?-----
no one talked about the Koran 40 years ago------on the INTERNET?------you
had access to the internet 40 years ago? I do agree that people in the US
did not talk much about the Koran 40 years ago-----I read it about 45 years ago---
but most of the muslims I knew never actually read it (of course I read an English
translation). Want a funny story?----I read the Koran and decided my copy must
be a MISPRINT because it recounted biblical stories with LOTS OF MISTAKES---
so I decided to give my copy to a muslim I knew (Pakistani) --and urge him
to report the mistakes to the publisher. He took a look at the book and said---"no---
this is fine" (picthall) There is no way to understand the situation in the
middle east without knowing something about islam