Mohammed-movie filmmakers sentenced to death in Egypt

[katmai]

That is one way to deal with really bad movie making.

Yet Uwe Boll keeps making films.

[DontSayBanana]

Koran

Quran, heathen dog.

[Solmyr]

Koran

Quran, heathen dog.

Qur'an.

[Syt]

Koran

Quran, heathen dog.

Qur'an.

They only do that to make it look more alien/foreign. Kind of like you add random apostrophes to alien races to make them menacing: Ha'M'Ste'r.

[Valmy]

Ha'M'Ste'r.

These advanced and exotic monsters will destroy us all!

[Duque de Bragança]

Koran

Quran, heathen dog.

Qur'an.

al Qur'ān

[Solmyr]

Koran

Quran, heathen dog.

Qur'an.

al Qur'ān

القرآن‎ 

[Tamas]

if you say "qur" that sounds like a word for "fucks" in Hungarian.

Also "halal" means death in Hungarian.

[Martinus]

Only backward cultures insist on their shit being spelled/pronounced/written in a foreign language. All self-confident cultures are happy to use English words (when talking about them in English).

That's how you can tell that Burma went from civilised to savage.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The Burma/Myanmar business is quite a bit more interesting than that :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7013943.stm

A quick summary, it is called Burma in informal situations and Myanmar in books, official documents and so on.