Iraq Doesn’t Know What To Do With Koran Written In Saddam Hussein’s Blood

by Ray Rahman | 11:59 am, December 20th, 2010

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There’s megalomania, and then there’s this: back in the ’90s, when you were busy drinking Zima and watching Melrose Place, Saddam Hussein commissioned a Koran to be written in his own blood. And now, eight years after his death, Iraq is, well, a bit unsure of what exactly they should do with the gruesome artifact.

First, some details about the book’s creation, provided by The Guardian:

Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur’an.

More recently, the bloody corpus has been resting in the vault of a Baghdad mosque, locked away until scholars can figure out what to do with it. To add to its supernatural aura, Sheikh Ahmed al-Samarrai tells the Guardian that “there are three keys and none of them are held in the one place. I have one, the police chief in the area has another and there is a third in another part of Baghdad. There has to be a decision of a committee to let you in.”

Opinions in Iraq vary, as one would expect, with what the Blood Koran’s fate should be. “It was wrong to do what he did, to write it in blood,” says the same Sheikh who said he had one of the three keys. “It is haraam [forbidden].”

Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi agrees,

“This is very destructive for the psyche of the Iraqi population. This is a clear reminder of the consequences of totalitarianism and idealising a person that embodies evil. They have brought nothing to Iraq. They are not worth celebrating. They have nothing aesthetic to offer. I am for removing them.”

Others are considering the matter in a more historical context:

“He was there and he ruled and he impacted on the world,” said Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the former national security adviser who escorted Saddam to the gallows. “But he was a part of our history. He was a bad part of our history, but he made a huge difference, whether we like it or not. We need not bury the legacy of that period. We need to remember it, all what is bad and what is good and learn lessons.”

Also, SADDAMN HUSSEIN HAD A KORAN WRITTEN IN HIS OWN BLOOD. You can learn more about this insanity with this lengthy article over at The Guardian.

[Via Daily Intel]

Blood, Daily Intel, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, The Guardian

Atticus Draco

“Iraq Doesn’t Know What To Do With Koran Written In Saddam Hussein’s Blood”

OMG!
LMAO
Probably NOT wrong

Burn the Damn thing!!! Helloooooooooo!
Atticus Draco

Probably NOT wrong said:
Burn the Damn thing!!! Helloooooooooo!

lol,, give it to a christian,, they’ll DO IT!!!
Atticus Draco

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HEY WAIT A MINUTE MEDIAITE,,,
Shouldn’t this be in the “This Exists:” catagory?!?
lol
pakattak

Atticus Draco said:
“Iraq Doesn’t Know What To Do With Koran Written In Saddam Hussein’s Blood”

OMG!
LMAO

OMG!
LMAO!
ROFL!
WTF!
BBQ!

…Oh wait, this wasn’t an acronym contest?

I can understand preserving this for the sake of historical significance, but honestly, they should just burn the thing. Treat it like one of those Hussein statues.

Remember: Muslims treat the words of the Koran as the embodiment of God himself. For Saddam to have a Koran written in his blood is both egomaniacal and blasphemous.
Atticus Draco

pakattak said:
Saddam to have a Koran written in his blood is both egomaniacal and blasphemous.

FTW?
Hugo Daun

pakattak said:
I can understand preserving this for the sake of historical significance, but honestly, they should just burn the thing.

That’s the safest bet.

Otherwise some liberal America-hater may be tempted to extract DNA from Saddam’s blood in an effort to clone him!
Nachi

Forward it to WikiLeaks.
Quite the Pundint

Put it on eBay. Then I can buy it and use it for asswipe.
Nahu Tuk

There’s a shortage of toilet paper in Iraq–this could be the solution to that shortage.
http://pouredwithpleasure.com obillo

Hussein was always a practical muslim–one who used Islam for his own purposes when/as/if he thought it would bolster his position, and he was also a relelntlessly murderous brute. So I wonder why anyone believes that particular Koran is really written in his own blood.
chatmandu002

Burn it!!!!
k1oik

Let that preacher in Florida burn it. That closes the loop.
jo hoochie

Burn it and spread the ashes over the nearest garbage dump!!
Nacho

The proper thing would have been to bury it with him. Is that ok in the Muslim rule book?

Give it to his family and let them decide what to do with it.
JJ Vachon

Let’s be practical and recycle! It can be used as toilet paper!
Socialist

If this was a some Christian extremist, who wrote a bible with his blood, I would say it should be burnt

And NOW, when we see a Muslim leader writing his Quaran in blood, It should receive the same treatment too and burnt.
http://none pyrope

Why do I suspect that CAIR is now seeking an earmark from Anthony Weiner to build a special museum in New York to house this “document?”
http://none pyrope

k1oik said:
Let that preacher in Florida burn it. That closes the loop.

Best idea I’ve read.
Nacho

We won, we tracked him down and made sure he was killed.

He had nothing to do with 9/11 or our current threat from radical Islam.

Move on, my fellow Americans, move on…
PC Kryptonite

No-Brainer, burn it or you risk having it become some type of perverted rellic for would-be crazies and tyrants to rally around.

Burn the damn perverted thing and then move on and forget him! Why is it even being pondered?