Like, Dude, Memorize the Koran
January 24th, 2007 by The Brewmaster
On the surface, it seems like the following stoner got lucky, given a chance to memorize the Koran and stay out of jail, but I don’t know how many druggies would be able to pull that off.
A Saudi court has ordered a drug user to spend six months memorizing the Koran, but he faces a year in prison if he fails to recite the Muslim holy book by heart, a newspaper said Tuesday.The “alternative sentence” saves the Saudi man from Jeddah from a six-month jail term, al-Watan said. But that sentence will be doubled if his Koranic recitation classes fail to make him a “hafez,” someone who knows the Koran by heart.
There are more than 77,000 words in the Koran. It takes on average two years to study.
That’s like, dude, totally gnarly justice. Rock on, Memorizing Dude.
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