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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

You falsely removed the concept of nationality from anyone professing to be a Moslem. Thus my comment was entirely relevent. The rest of your yammering in this post IS irrelevent though.


2,333 posted on 03/10/2006 5:50:01 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
There is no concept of nationality within Islam.

The fact that on a practical level most Muslims living in the Middle East consider themselves to belong to a certain nation-state does not mean that their affiliation to tribe or religion has diminished since the collapse of the vestigial remnants of the Caliphate after the First World War.

Pan-Arabism might be an antiquated idea, but pan-Islam is not only alive and well, but it is flourishing, as the Paris intifada, worldwide riots in response to those innocuous Jyllands-Posten cartoons, and generic support for the 9/11 massacres within the ummah demonstrate.

In this respect, Osama Bin-Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood are merely picking up on the legacy bequeathed by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, who was simply revivifying a concept that had been inherent in Islam since the time of Mohammed.

Worldwide unity, leading to independence from Western colonialist powers, followed shortly thereafter by the colonization in turn of the West.

2,335 posted on 03/10/2006 5:59:12 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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