Calligrapher forced to write Koran in blood

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Calligrapher forced to write Koran in blood

Calligrapher Abbas Shaker Jawdah, renowned across the Arab world for his masterpieces, spoke this week about his worst commission ever – to transcribe the Koran in what he was told was the blood of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Now a refugee in Jordan with his wife and three children, Jawdah described how he fulfilled Saddam’s strange order, which came a few months after a failed assassination attempt against his eldest son Uday in 1998.

“Saddam Hussein summoned me to the Ibn Sina hospital in Baghdad where his son Uday was recovering from an attempt to kill him, and asked me to write a copy of the Koran with his own blood,” he said.

The gesture was meant as a measure of gratitude to God for sparing Uday – who was eventually killed with his brother Qusay in a raid by US forces in the northern city of Mosul on July 22 last year.

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Calligrapher forced to write Koran in blood

[LiberalVoice]

1. That is sickening.

I was born and raised muslim and I'll be the first to say that that has nothing to do with Islam and is without a doubt in my mind wrong in the religion.

[HFishbine]

2. Robertson commissions Bible written with his own

nevermind. It's too early.