Koran
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Koran is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 08, 2022 and September 13, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “ban the Koran”; “any Muslim who does something bad is misinterpreting the Koran”; “There are many prophecies about the End Times in the Koran and the hadiths”. It most often appears alongside Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine.
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- Category: Books
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: December 08, 2022
- Last seen: September 13, 2024
Appears In
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Related Pages
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- Russia (3 shared issues)
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- Saudi Arabia (3 shared issues)
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- Ukraine (3 shared issues)
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- Democrats (2 shared issues)
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- East Africa (2 shared issues)
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- Ethereum (2 shared issues)
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- Google (2 shared issues)
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- Iran (2 shared issues)
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- Middle East (2 shared issues)
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- Silicon Valley (2 shared issues)
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- Syria (2 shared issues)
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- Trump (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
If the government hates Islam, it’s hard from a legal and PR perspective to imprison imams or ban the Koran. But it’s easy to subtly convey to banks that it will regulate them out of existence unless they ban transactions to imams, or to any bookstores that carry Korans. And this has pretty much the same effect.
Religion will continue to retreat from US public life. As it becomes less important, mainstream society will treat it as less of an outgroup and more of a fargroup. Everyone will assume Christians have some sort of vague spiritual wisdom, much like Buddhists do. Everyone will agree evangelicals or anyone with a real religious opinion is just straight-out misinterpreting the Bible, the same way any Muslim who does something bad is misinterpreting the Koran. Christian mysticism will become more popular among intellectuals. Lots of people will talk about how real Christianity opposes capitalism. There may not literally be a black lesbian Pope, but everyone will agree that there should be, and people will become mildly surprised when you remind them that the Pope is white, male, and sexually inactive.
There are many prophecies about the End Times in the Koran and the hadiths (deeds and words of Muhammad, transmitted through oral tradition, the authenticities of some of which are hotly debated among Islamic scholars). Some of these prophecies are thought to be already fulfilled, others are not. But the glorious coming of the Mahdi can only happen once all the events that are prophesied to happen before him have passed.
The third group is, again, people who take their religion really seriously and literally. Aimen Dean has some of the characteristics of the second group, but mostly falls into this category. He knew the Koran by heart by the time he was twelve. (He has a photographic memory, something that was very useful in his career as a spy.) He spent all his youth learning and thinking about his religion, being taught by some radical clerics who ran the study group in his neighborhood. By the time he volunteered to fight in Bosnia, he truly believed that there is no higher calling than dying in a holy war, and truly believed in his heart that Paradise awaits the martyrs.