Auction the pages off?! Not going to happen. Religiously and politically impossible.
Religiously, it's about as haraam/forbidden as it gets to treat the Koran (any copy - well, certainly any copy in Arabic) with anything less than serious reverence. Separating it in to parts is Wrong. Selling each bit off separately to the highest bidder is worse sacrilege than giving out unwashed pairs of the Pope's pants as a freebie for all visitors to an abortion clinic.
Politically, selling off Ba'athist trophies widely seems ... unwise, let us say, if you're not keen for Saddam's party to make a comeback. It'd be like the West German Govt selling off Hitler souvenirs in 1949.
That makes sense. I suppose my lack of religion was showing.
My next idea would be to carefully put all the pages together into a well-built casket, and bury it in the same place Saddam's body is buried. Or based on another page I just read about how old Korans can be disposed of, one could wrap it in a clean cloth and bury it with a slab over it (as letting dirt fall directly on it would be deemed disrespectful).
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Religiously, it's about as haraam/forbidden as it gets to treat the Koran (any copy - well, certainly any copy in Arabic) with anything less than serious reverence. Separating it in to parts is Wrong. Selling each bit off separately to the highest bidder is worse sacrilege than giving out unwashed pairs of the Pope's pants as a freebie for all visitors to an abortion clinic.
Politically, selling off Ba'athist trophies widely seems ... unwise, let us say, if you're not keen for Saddam's party to make a comeback. It'd be like the West German Govt selling off Hitler souvenirs in 1949.
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My next idea would be to carefully put all the pages together into a well-built casket, and bury it in the same place Saddam's body is buried. Or based on another page I just read about how old Korans can be disposed of, one could wrap it in a clean cloth and bury it with a slab over it (as letting dirt fall directly on it would be deemed disrespectful).