Iraqi Imams view the 605-page qur'an written using 24 litres of former dictator Saddam Hussein's own blood donated over a number of years. Photograph: Scott Peterson/Getty ImagesQur'an Etched In Saddam Hussein's Blood Poses Dilemma For Iraq Leaders -- The Guardian
As country debates whether to destroy everything connected to former dictator, Shia-led regime remains sensitive about relics.
It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety. Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur'an. But since the fall of Baghdad, almost eight years ago, it has stayed largely out of sight - locked away behind three vaulted doors. It is the one part of the ousted tyrant's legacy that Iraq has simply not known what to do with.
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My Comment: If "it is haraam [forbidden]" .... then destroy it. But Iraqi politics is not that simple, and I expect this legacy of Saddam Hussein to be around for a very very long time.