Hey Nineteen

Over at The Belmont Club, Wretchard zeroes in (pardon the expression) on a fascinating detail of the Mohammad Reza Taheri Azar affair (he's the guy who rammed a rented SUV into a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina a few weeks back.)

In his note explaining his actions to the authorities, Azar says, inter alia:

I know that the Qur'an is a legitimate and authoritative holy scripture since it is completely validated by modern science and also mathematically encoded with the number 19 beyond human ability.

Um, WTF?

Read on for the explanation -- The Belmont Club: Nineteen.