{"id":562,"date":"2006-03-05T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T10:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/05\/telegraph_clarifies_ban_quran_call"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:59:47","slug":"telegraph_clarifies_ban_quran_call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/05\/telegraph_clarifies_ban_quran_call","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph clarifies &#8220;Ban Qur&#8217;an&#8221; call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Telegraph today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?menuId=1593&amp;menuItemId=-1&amp;view=DISPLAYCONTENT&amp;grid=P8&amp;targetRule=0\">published a letter from Abdul-Haqq Bewley<\/a> (eighth letter down, &quot;Most Muslims in Britain have conservative values&quot;) regarding the remarks Patrick Sookhdeo made regarding his and his wife&#39;s translation of the Noble Qur&#39;an two weeks ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/02\/26\/bookwright_on_ban_quran_call\">[1]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamophobia-watch.com\/islamophobia-watch\/2006\/2\/20\/sookhdeo-calls-for-ban-on-quran.html\">[2]<\/a>).  It appears that Sookhdeo <em>was<\/em> indeed referring to a different translation which had the same English title (the Noble Qur&#39;an, as opposed to Holy Qur&#39;an for example) though <em>not<\/em> the same sub-title (&quot;A New Rendering &#8230;&quot;).  Most likely this was the infamous, ear-jarring, propaganda-laden Khan-Hilali translation.  Even so, this is the edition beloved of even pro-Saudi Wahhabis who oppose the use of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Sookhdeo clearly referred to the subtitle of the translation, which has very little commentary (unlike Khan &amp; Hilali), which does give the impression that it was the content of the Qur&#39;an which Sookhdeo was suggesting was the issue, not commentary alongside the text.  So people were justified in fearing that the Qur&#39;an itself was under attack and not one person&#39;s writings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Telegraph today published a letter from Abdul-Haqq Bewley (eighth letter down, &quot;Most Muslims in Britain have conservative values&quot;) regarding the remarks Patrick Sookhdeo made regarding his and his wife&#39;s translation of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-sookhdeo_patrick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-94","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42554,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/42554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}