Is there a place for Islam in Mikhael Saakashvili’s Christian Georgia?

Caucaz.com ^ | 06/08/2005 | Bayram BALCI

[CzarNicky]

No

[Lukasz]

but but we cannot allow Islam in Georgia to be marginalised :-))

[GSlob]

Well, unless islam is seriously reformed [re-written, essentially] in its aspects dealing with the secular power, then no.

[Lukasz]

I don’t think that many Muslims would agree to re-write Koran. What they really need is correct one and only interpretation.

[jimtorr]

I'd think a greater worry is for Christian Georgians being blown up by Muslim terrorists, for whatever reason.

[GSlob]

Then there will be no place for them on the whole planet.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Funny how they never ask the question "Is there a place for Christians in (fill in the blank with a Muslim country)"?

[Vigilanteman]

You nailed it. Azerbaijan is right next door. Iran is a 40 minute flight away. Turkey is a little over one hour.

The problem with Islamists is they cannot live peaceably with their neighbors unless they are in charge and their neighbors are either dead, enslaved or otherwise under the Islamofacist heels.

For every Pali kicked out by Jooze, there were at least 10 Jews expelled from Syria, Egypt and other Arab countries. There are still hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs living in Israel. How many Jews are still living in Mecca?

[Tailgunner Joe]

ping

[MarMema]

Funny how they never ask the question "Is there a place for Christians in (fill in the blank with a Muslim country)"?

Bingo. Thanks for saying it before I could.

I was in Georgia in May of this year and it is indeed a splendidly, overwhelmingly Christian country.

Needless to say I had a blast and cannot wait to return.

I won't post here what Georgians I met there said to me about muslims.

[MarMema]

Looks like Basayev has his greedy eye on Georgia now. The slimeball.

Prayers for my many Georgian friends, please, any of you that can join me.

[MarMema]

Muslims, but Georgian, they are in a difficult position as the central state encourages Ajarian Muslims to convert to Christianity, which is promoted as the “true” religion of Georgians.

As it is and ever shall be.

[MarMema]

Thank you so much for the ping.

[MarMema]

ping

[jb6]

Baseyov has openly stated he wants HIS Caliphe to stretch from the Caspian to the Crimea and from Turkey to the Volga Tartars (oh about the size of Germany).

[jb6]

I love Islamic articles, such "good" wording:

Another minority Muslim group, the Abkhazians, live scattered throughout the secessionist region of Abkhazia and in other Georgian towns. They were in part converted to Islam throughout the 17th and 18th centuries under the Ottoman domination

The majority of Abkhaz in Abkhazia are Christians, there is a small muslim minority. The majority of Islamic Abkhazians live in Turkey, having fled there with the Turk retreat.

[jb6]

Turkey is next door.

[Lukasz]

Don’t be afraid my friend. I hope that we all remember how Chechen terrorist Basayev joined his forces with Russian government to back Abkhazian Muslims to fight Christian Georgia.

[jb6]

Except you're ignoring the little fact that the majority of the Abkhaz are Orthodox Christians, so are the Armenians who live there and the Russians who live there. So were the Ossessians who had come to assist them too. Woops.