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To: Lady Heron
Madam, you are mistaken. There are some who claim to be Muslims who are as you describe, but not by any means all of them. That is like the islamofacists claiming all Christians are alike. Total BS.

Anti-semitism is a form of racism, and Arabs, who are a large percentage of the world's Muslims, are Semites, just like the Jews. The KKK is also unfond of Catholics, and Jews, in case you hadn't noticed.

As for studying the religion, I have. I lived in Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, and Morocco, and among the Turks and other immigrant workers, many of them Muslim, in Germany, as well.

Like Christianity, Islam is not, in itself, evil, although, again like Christianity, there are evil people in it. The same book which brought the world the Quakers also brought the Inquisition, as it is all just a matter of interpretation. Do you know the historical reason for the split between Northern Baptists and Southern Baptists? There are many other "doctrinal differences" between the various sects of Christianity based on differing interpretations of the one foundational text. Islam has the same problem. The split between Shia and Sunni happened before Mohammed was completely cold in his grave. There have been numerous other splits in that religion, since then. If you were to say the Wahhabi were evil to the core, I might be inclined to agree with you, but even they must have SOME good people. I haven't met any of them, but I won't take that as proof that there aren't any. I knew when I decided to shoot my Southern Baptist minister stepfather if he beat up my mom again, when I was 12, that not all Baptists, or even all Southern Baptists, were evil. Just some of them. Heck, if you want to say the Imam who this thread is about is evil, I would happily agree with you. But: Broad brush I said, broad brush I meant. If the shoe fits, wear it.
138 posted on 03/18/2004 9:34:35 PM PST by Old Student (WRM, MSgt, USAF (Ret.))
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To: Old Student
No sir, I am not mistaken. I have studied the religion and know what it teaches. Unlike Christianity or Judism it teaches its followers they should KILL non-muslims, lets not go into other things like what it teaches about women. Islam is evil in the extreme.

I do not know what you are a student of but it is evident you know nothing of what was going on in the Church through out history (Dark Ages the Church was not following the teachings in the Bible and the people had no clue, gee I wonder why it was called the Dark Ages, Reformation brought about the Bible being able to be read by the people and thus Protestantism (Protesters of the Catholic Church which brought the Catholic Church much closer to Biblical teachings)). I begin to wonder what you know about islam or whether you are a convert and are here to lie about what islam actually teaches. To bad we in the West can read.

140 posted on 03/18/2004 10:22:35 PM PST by Lady Heron
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