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To: Pokey78
What Islam needs is a reformation, and if this very concept is forbidden in the unchangeable word of the Koran,

And they need to edit the Koran quite heavily.

7 posted on 12/25/2001 8:35:12 PM PST by FITZ
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8 posted on 12/25/2001 8:38:43 PM PST by timestax
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To: FITZ
"And they need to edit the Koran quite heavily. "

Well, that's the problem isn't it? The Koran is specific in its command to Muslims to kill anyone who refuses to convert.

Nothing that anyone can say or do can change what a billion copies of the Koran clearly state.

There is no such thing as a "moderate" Muslim, there are simply some who won't publicly acknowlege their religious beliefs.

12 posted on 12/25/2001 9:18:34 PM PST by bayourod
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"And they need to edit the Koran quite heavily."

Try to put yourself into Mohammed's shoes for a moment. He was trying to create a new religion with himself at the head. He knew the only way to get people to accept this new religion was by force and indoctrination. And he had to make the adherrents believe they were superior to other peoples. The adherrents of other faiths were infidels or inferiors. His new religion/society was to be a patriarchal one with men as rulers over women. Women were to walk behind their "master," not beside them as a helpmate.

The east has managed to get things pretty screwed up, but so has the west, so I won't fault them for that. Both the east and west have messed up the religion - secular spheres and men - women relationships. I don't mind the east having their own cultures and views on life. They are entitled to their own ways of doing things. I have put in some 12 years of living in foreign countries, and I don't think the US has all the answers to living the fruitful life. What I do have against the east is they are trying to bury us.

Anyway, don't look for an editing of their sacred texts anytime soon. They are pretty set in their ways.

47 posted on 01/27/2002 12:30:21 PM PST by Don Myers
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