You think fundamentalist Christians got problems?

From
http://forum.atimes.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1271

[quote] In the [AsiaTimes] letters section Spengler,one of the journalist ,wrote about the Yemeni Quran in a paper grave .These Yemeni Quran differ from the today's version of Quran today.I googled it and came up with this site.
http://www.derafsh-kaviyani.com/english/quran1.html

In 1972, during the restoration of the Great Mosque of Sana'a, in Yemen, laborers working in a loft between the structure's inner and outer roofs stumbled across a remarkable gravesite [containing] tens of thousands of fragments from close to a thousand different parchment codices of the Koran, the Muslim holy scripture. In some pious Muslim circles it is held that worn-out or damaged copies of the Koran must be removed from circulation; hence the idea of a grave, which both preserves the sanctity of the texts being laid to rest and ensures that only complete and unblemished editions of the scripture will be read. [end quote]

Some of the most useful bible manuscripts and fragments have come from just such "graves." Christian scholars understand that no bible in existence is literally a "true" bible- word-for-word as the original men set it down. Many muslims, though, don't have what a non-Muslim might call such a 'reasonable' attitude toward the Qur'an, as the ATimes forum post points out.
The derfash-kaviyani link seems to be a reprint of a 6-yr-old article from the Atlantic magazine.
Regards, Doug in New Mexico