Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Cyber jihad and Koran desecration
Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus and spam analysis centers, have warned users about a Trojan horse which tries to interrupt surfing of adult websites by displaying messages from the Koran.
The Yusufali-A Trojan horse monitors which websites Windows users are visiting by examining the title bar of the active window. If the Trojan finds a word it doesn't like (such as "teen", "xx", "sex" or "penis") it minimizes the window so the user cannot see its content and displays a message from the Koran instead:
Naturally, I have a question: Why doesn't this constitute desecration of the Koran? If, presumably, one would not place a physical Koran on porn, why would it be just fine to lay a digital Koran on porn? If, in fact, this is Koran desecration, where's the outrage?
CWCID: Myrtus (who describes this as a "Quranic Trojan," which would definitely be Koran desecration!).
1 Comments:
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Myrtus, at
Wed Sep 07, 09:45:00 AM:
Very good questions, TigerHawk!
The top part is the Quranic verse 19 from surah 47, which is known as Surat Mohammad=Surah of Mohammed.
The Arabic word on the top right written in bold font says "Surat" and the one on the top left says "Mohammad".
The English part in the middle is the Yusuf Ali translation of verse 47.19, but it's missing the "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful" which is required before reciting anything from the Quran.
You can find the surah here:
http://info.uah.edu/msa/quran/yusufali/047.Muhammad.html
The bottom part looks like Arabic, but when I try to read it, it sounds like gibberish to me...I think that it might be Farsi or who knows, it could be some sort of Al Qaeda code...(;
