To: Eva
Actually, Kemal Ataturk (an atheist) was able to largely solve that problem in Turkey, by requiring that Islamic religious services not be performed in Arabic and putting a rigidly secular Constitution in place.
I would also be in favor of making it an imprisonable offense to use any copy of the Quran or related materials for Islamic religious instruction that doesn't have all passages relating to persecution of non-Muslims deleted.
To: Post Toasties
This would be on the legal basis that such passages are not religious in nature, but are insurrectionary and amount to prosecutable hate speech.
To: Post Toasties
But in recent years, many of the restriction on Islam in Turkey seem to be over-ridden. But I like the idea of deleting militant segments of the Koran as being supportive of terrorism and hate.
20 posted on
03/28/2003 10:41:19 AM PST by
Eva
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