Preface

Throughout this text phrases and paragraphs are
emphasised using bold text. None of this emphasis should
be assumed to occur in the original texts from which we
quote. We render these parts of the book in bold text
because this book attempts to undo decades of deception
from politicians, religious clerics and journalists. The use of
bold text is to enable the reader to quickly and easily grasp
the core content of this book, whilst the rest of the text is
there to supplement the core content.
A frequent ruse used to confuse people coming to
terms with the Koran is “what you have heard has been
taken out of context”. To destroy this ruse, this book
contains an entire Koran, with the only significant difference
being that this Koran has been put into the accepted
chronological order (but in reverse, so that the latest – and
most violent – commands spoken by Mohammed are the
first thing the reader sees). As we explain in the
Introduction, it is the normal Koran, the standard Koran
which “takes things out of context”, in that the standard
Koran is in no rational order, thus denying the reader of the
context provided by the chronology of what was said first
and what was said last. Our presentation of the Koran is the
only known attempt to present the Koran in reverse
chronological order. Furthermore it is also the only known
attempt to visually indicate which parts of the Koran are
known to have been cancelled by Mohammedʼs later
commands. Because of these features, our Koran allows the
non-Muslim reader to grasp in minutes what might