[lbo-talk] Los Angeles Lawyer Releases Independently Interpreted Bin Laden Translations

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 22 15:32:59 PDT 2005


Maybe he doesn't know the language? Or doesn't have the text? Or is an idiot?

--- John Adams <jadams01 at sprynet.com> wrote:


> Perhaps I'm slow, but:
>
> > "In order for me to trust a text, I need to know
> who the translator is," said Khaled Abou El Fadl, a
> University of California, Los Angeles, law
> professor.
>
> If you've got the original text, and you've got the
> translation, then--assuming you know the language,
> of course--why do you need to know who the
> translator is to decide whether the translation is
> trustworthy?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John A
> see me fulminate at http://www.jzip.org/
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