Today, or slightly earlier, both Yasir Qadhi and Mohammed Hijab removed their disastrous interview of June 8 from both of their respective YouTube sites, so that no one can see it or play it again...or so they thought. Many of us have already taken it down, and saved it on our computers to remind them that they can't simply walk away from their problems concerning the preservation of the Qur'an...they have got to face it head on! So do all Muslims.

Deleting it from the internet just underlines the fact that Muslim scholars still can't deal with the problems concerning the many Qira'ats and the Ahrufs.

Probably most troubling for Qadhi was his admission that the Qira'at and Ahruf are possibly the greatest problem for Muslims scholars today; in fact, for all the previous scholars as well, and that this has created a large "hole in the narrative" which he still hasn't been able to resolve, trying instead to persuade himself and everyone else watching that "the Qur'an is the 'speech of Allah', that it is preserved, and protected, and that ALL of the Qira'at are the Qur'an" (yep, all 30 of them with over 93,000 differences)!

But deleting the interview from the internet is not the solution, but try telling that to the Muslims. Eradicating their problems is what Muslims have always done best. Since the time of Uthman, they have either burned their Qur'ans, allowed goats to eat it, erased it, covered it, taped it, or inserted words and phrases to standardize it, or they tried to drown it in the Nile. And now they are excising their defense of it from the internet, a quintessential 21st century solution.

Wouldn't it be a lot easier admitting that this is a book which simply does not come from god, nor from Muhammad, nor from Uthman, but was written around 1300 years ago by certain men, then was changed and accreted by other men, and finally canonized by yet other men, a mere 35 years ago.

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