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

[darkoshi]

When I first read that, I wasn't sure if there was a scriptural rule against it, or if it was something cultural/traditional.

But I found this page: http://www.al-islam.org/laws/najisthings.html
which lists things which are considered unclean ("najis"). Blood is among them, and it says "Writing the holy Qur'an with najis ink, even one letter of it, amounts to making it najis. And if written, it should be erased or washed off. "