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[vyvyanx]

Yay! G has a job! After 5 months of unemployment, the jobcentre have decided to take him on themselves, to process giros :-)
In other news, I was accosted yesterday (in a polite way) by an evangelical Moslem, who gave me a short tract on the scientific accuracy of the Qur'an, and invited me to visit a local mosque for free food and drink. I was quite surprised - I've only ever been approached by Christians of various types before (and a Hare Krishna bloke several years ago). Still, I guess Mill Road is the place to find evangelical Moslems in Cambridge, if they're going to be anywhere!

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[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

invited me to visit a local mosque for free food and drink.

I believe this is a part of the Moslem religion - if you visit a Muslim's home or mosque, it's impolite for them not to offer you food (and also impolite for you to refuse).

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Horah for G! And go you for keeping him motivated :)

[zotz]

More good news. Pass on my congratulations.

As for the Qu'ran . . . I'd be surprised if it was scientifically accurate by your reckoning or mine, but (by my reading of Karen Armstrong's stuff, anyway) they're very unlikely to see any conflict. If I ever meet any Muslim missionaries, I'm going to ask about the Great Library - burning it seems so opposed to everything I've heard about Islam that I want to ask how it's regarded by the faithful.

Finally, I met an acquaintance of yours on Sunday - mbm, from the Bunker. I also met some other friends-of-friends, which was much stranger. I'll explain when i see you.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

If you mean the library of Alexandria, I think you ought to establish who destroyed it before trying that; it's probably regarded by the faithful as "nothing to do with us", and probably correctly so. http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm (http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm) is worth a look.

[zotz]

Thank you. I did think it was an odd story.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

What amuses me was that the variant I'd always heard was the "the Christians did it" one,with the "the Muslims did it" quoted as an instance of libel; but it seems that Gibbon may have made that up too. Anyway I have a complete set of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire on my shelves waiting for me to get round to reading; I wonder what else he made up?