Islam and modern life - links that may be interesting related in some way to friends or clients with Islamic connections

Please note: I am not endorsing these links. I'm just putting them here so I can find them later. Many I have not even looked at thoroughly.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/01/what-is-the-koran/304024/

What Is the Koran?

IN 1972, during the restoration of the Great Mosque of Sana'a, in Yemen, laborers working in a loft between the structure's inner and outer roofs stumbled across a remarkable gravesite, although they did not realize it at the time. Their ignorance was excusable: mosques do not normally house graves, and this site contained no tombstones, no human remains, no funereal jewelry. It contained nothing more, in fact, than an unappealing mash of old parchment and paper documents—damaged books and individual pages of Arabic text, fused together by centuries of rain and dampness, gnawed into over the years by rats and insects. Intent on completing the task at hand, the laborers gathered up the manuscripts, pressed them into some twenty potato sacks, and set them aside on the staircase of one of the mosque's minarets, where they were locked away—and where they would probably have been forgotten once again, were it not for Qadhi Isma'il al-Akwa', then the president of the Yemeni Antiquities Authority, who realized the potential importance of the find.

...it became clear that the hoard was a fabulous example of what is sometimes referred to as a "paper grave"—in this case the resting place for, among other things, tens of thousands of fragments from close to a thousand different parchment codices of the Koran,... they were fragments, in other words, of perhaps the oldest Korans in existence. What's more, some of these fragments revealed small but intriguing aberrations from the standard Koranic text. 

TRANSMISSION OF THE KORAN

How many people had to be perfect for the final result to be perfect?

If it is true that "In the case of Mohammed, Muslim literary sources for his life only begin around 750-800 CE (common era), some four to five generations after his death, and few Islamicists (specialists in the history and study of Islam) these days assume them to be straightforward historical accounts" then I want to ask the question: how many transmissions of the Koran must have passed through perfectly reliable individuals for the final version to be perfect? 

Allh                                                                                                                           Perfect, naturally.

Mhmd                               1^st Revelation – Year Zero                                               Perfect

                       #1 who?     1^st writing of a Revelation – Year _____________          Perfect?

                       #2

                       #3

                        Etc.

                                                                                Last writing of a Revelation – Year 23?

Mhmd accepted 6 oral versions?

1^st Imam

2^nd Imam

3^rd Imam                                                                                                                                                                             Perfect?

4^th Imam = Uthman – gathered all various of Koran and standardized them.

The Guantánamo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi  

By Mohamedou Ould Slahi|Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at 5:31 AM

When Slahi wouldn’t tell them what they wanted to hear, his captors took him on a torture cruise. They would make him disappear. He was tortured, beaten, and humiliated, and he remains in prison. Here is his story, in his own words.
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: ENDLESS INTERROGATIONS

http://lovematters.in/en/news/halal-sex-website-no-contradiction