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To: Alouette
The woman is right. Would Customer #1 have said the same thing to a Jew wearing a yarmulke, or a Sikh wearing a turban?

That's true. But that's not to say that there is any kind of moral equivalency between Judaism and Mohammedanism. Moreover, the woman's statement is ironic because in Mohammedan society Jews and Christians are subject to "dhimini" or second-class status. Believers in other religions may be treated worse.

The question of whether a society like ours can tolerate a religion that doesn't tolerate other religions is no longer an academic question.

14 posted on 11/03/2003 10:32:45 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
The question of whether a society like ours can tolerate a religion that doesn't tolerate other religions is no longer an academic question.

You started by relating an anecdote about a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf. I have no problem with women who voluntarily choose to adopt this mode of dress, anymore than I have a problem with Orthodox Jews wearing yarmulkes or Christian women of some sects who always wear dresses with long sleeves.

It becomes a social problem when women who do not wear burqas are assumed to be "fair game" for roving bands of Mohammedan sex criminals, as we see has become the norm in Australia, Norway and France.

23 posted on 11/03/2003 12:10:59 PM PST by Alouette (Neocon Zionist Media Operative)
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