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To: diamond6
You consider this article frightening?

I don't recommend that you see the movie "Obsession"if that is truly the case for you...

While Islam is NOT compatible with Christianity I find it ironic that it IS compatible with "The daVinci Code". Of course since they use non-canonical texts as primary sources of their body of teachings from early Jewish and Christian texts it is not that surprising.

8 posted on 11/26/2006 12:23:49 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
While Islam is NOT compatible with Christianity I find it ironic that it IS compatible with "The daVinci Code".

Very good point! Islam was a syncretist heresy based on a bizarre combination of things floating around the ME at the time of Mohammed: Arian Christianity (which was essentially non-Trinitarian), Jewish ritual law, and pagan gods and social practices.

The problem is Islam, not only for us, but for Muslims. For a long time in the West or Westernized cultures, they were able to skate by on a sort of "non-practicing" Islam where they did the major holidays but not much else. However, the dynamic in Islam - throughout its history - is that the "orthodox" element, who actually have the support of Islamic scriptures, take over and crush the more moderate element.

The first time the Muslims were conquered in Spain, they were conquered by other Muslims, a more radical group of Arabs (like Mohammed himself) who conquered the more sophisticated and less orthodox Baghdadi and Persian Muslims who occupied various parts of Spain. We're seeing that happening again in all parts of the Islamic world. But they can only do it because orthodox, scriptural Islam is on their side.

23 posted on 11/26/2006 12:55:37 PM PST by livius
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
movie "Obsession"

Is there more than the one hour stint that I saw on Fox? If so, is it for sale, is it released and where can it be had? Thanks

123 posted on 11/26/2006 6:11:20 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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