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In Iran, Clerics, Students Demand Execution Of Intellectual Who Claimed Koran Written With Earthly Inspiration

In a demonstration in Qom, some 100 clerics and their students demanded the execution of Iranian dissident intellectual Abd Al-Karim Sorush for saying that the Prophet Muhammad did not possess extensive knowledge and that the inspiration to write the Koran was earthly and subject to Muhammad's human limitations.

(See also "Iranian Dissident Vs Ayatollah: What Inspired Koran?".)

Source: Kargozaran, Iran, March 11, 2008



Posted at: 2008-03-27
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