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To: quidnunc; BenR2
I'm curious of your thoughts on how war against, or the banning of, religions (especially religions strongly tied to ethnicity) has played out in human history. Judaism, Catholicism, etc. - lots to choose from.

I'm especially interested in your thoughts of the modern "blood libel" being applied to Muslims by modern Christians, which I find wonderfully ironic.
60 posted on 12/28/2003 9:14:13 PM PST by optimistically_conservative (Nothing is as expensive as a free government service or subsidized benefit.)
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To: optimistically_conservative
optimistically_conservative wrote: I'm curious of your thoughts on how war against, or the banning of, religions (especially religions strongly tied to ethnicity) has played out in human history. Judaism, Catholicism, etc. - lots to choose from.

You don't expect much do you?

There isn't enough bandwidth available to the FR servers to adequately treat that subject.

But for a quick-and-dirty answer look at the Muslim world's campaigns against the non-Muslims within its borders.

Then optimistically_conservative wrote: I'm especially interested in your thoughts of the modern "blood libel" being applied to Muslims by modern Christians, which I find wonderfully ironic.

First let's be sure we have a common understanding of what a blood libel is, namely the accusation that a group sacrifices human beings and uses their blood in its rituals.

The only current blood libel of which I am aware is the one against Jews by Muslims that they, the Jews, use the blood of Muslim and Christian children in Passover matzos.

It a sign of the benighted state of Islam that the blood libel should be so widely repeated and believed.

As Christopher Hitchens said, we're dealing with people who have a Bronze Age mentality.

62 posted on 12/28/2003 9:40:57 PM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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