Re: fortune (falsifying the Holy Qur'an)

["Ahmed Maged" <amaged at engineer dot com>]

Could you please specify Which OS is this and fortune version , cos i'm running redhat here and i did a #grep koran /usr/share/games/fortunes/* and didnt find any .

And yes , contacting fortune Author , Linux distros and Our Linux community , and making a script that removes this from the fortune DB
Good day
Hi Mohamed , kurs , chahine :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:19:56 -0700 (PDT)
To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Subject: Re: fortune (falsifying the Holy Qur'an)

> --- Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> >  Stating this text as "The Koran" is not fair, the Koran is in Arabic,
> >  and no one can translate it, there are only "attemps" to do so.
> >
> [snip]
> >
> >   I understand that whoever wrote this sentence didn't know that it is
> >   wrong but what we cannot forgive is that he/she forgot that this is
> >   a translation not the Koran and the difference is quite large
> 
> Mohammed (and others), I highly suggest you be proactive in solving these
> issues.  Contact 'fortune's author (or its data maintainer) and indicate
> to them the following - what they have now is,
> 
>  1. Blatantly wrong
>  2. Offensive
>  3. Dangerously coerced (as it should note its a translation)
> 
> and that we'd be more than happy to supply them with more factual data.
> 
> It should also be noted that distro should be aware of such sensitive info
> if they ever plan to enter Arabic markets.  Mandrake, RedHat, etc should
> make a conscious decision to NOT include such rubbish and should even
> penalize such data generators.  We can start by contacting them and asking
> them for immediate action.
> 
> Can the data's author be singled out ?  Can the version of fortune which
> includes this (and other) garbage be singled out ?
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Salam
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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