Written by: Zachary Batten
The entire Bible is man's interpretation, thus making it harder to believe in and follow. Christianity is completely based on the interpretation of the disciples of Jesus. For the Gospels are titled "The Gospel According to Mathew" or "The Gospel According to Mark". Which raises a huge discrepancy, we have no proof these men were writing while these things were happening. So if they did in fact write at all it was after everything transpired. This raises an authenticity issue, because we have no real way of knowing if they made any mistakes at all. Since the Gospels are very well written in the sense they give much detail it is hard to believe they could recall such events after in great detail. For instance we see in my previous article that Mark 16:9-20 is considered a fabrication, for it is not among the early transcripts. Nor does it fit the way Mark wrote in the rest of the Gospel. This makes it even harder to believe they had the ability to recall events in great detail.
The origins of the Sri Lankan Moors is a matter that has aroused much controversy in academic circles. While it is generally believed that the Moors are descended from Arabian merchants who espoused local women, there are those historians who continue to argue that the Moors originally hailed from South India, mainly on the basis of their spoken language – Tamil. The present article proposes to show that the nucleus of the Moorish community comprises the descendants of Arabian settlers hailing from Iraq and the Arabian peninsula who arrived in the country during the medieval period. Oral tradition, genealogical records, anthropological details and literary, linguistic and epigraphic evidence will be adduced to support this view.
Fourteen hundred years ago Islam gave women rights.
