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The dangers of translation

16th February 2009

Read it.

It appears that no errors have been found in Zalmai’s translation: the objection of Muslim clerics is that the Dari translation does not appear alongside the original Arabic text.

I feel much the same way about translations of the Bible that don’t contain the Greek text. But that’s me.

Lucky for Zalmai and Ahmad that Afghanistan now has a democratic government controlled by moderate Muslims rather than the Taliban and other members of the tiny minority of intolerant extremists, hunh?

My thought exactly.

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