Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-21-2010

[andrewducker]

• Wow. There's a Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood. That's incredibly something-or-other.
  (tags: iraq islam religion blood quran saddam)
• British gay marriage rights battle takes to European courts
  (tags: rights uk lgbt marriage)
• Product placement on British TV gets go-ahead
  (tags: advertising tv uk)

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

If you air any American shows you are already getting product placement filled television. Or, really, if you guys air any American movies.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

My God, is the Koran for real? It's not even so much about destroying everything to do with Saddam, but what you'd do with a Holy Book written in anyone's blood. I agree the best thing is probably to keep it in a vault and not talk about it until tempers have cooled...

[darkoshi]

I don't understand why the blood-ink Quran is such an issue. Unless there's an Islamic rule against writing in blood, why not auction the pages off, and use the earnings for the good of the country? If it were rather written in the blood of people that Saddam had tortured and killed, then I'd understand the dilemma.

It sort of makes me want to write something in my own blood. But I don't think plain blood would make a good long-lasting ink.