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To: equaviator
Arabs also believed in jinn (subtle beings), and some vague divinity with many offspring.”

They still do. As it goes, jinn are a race that are generally invisible to humans & have magical powers. Shaytan was a jinn named Iblis who was thrown out of paradise for refusing to bow to Adam. The Arabs believe the jinn to have free will just like humans, as opposed to angels. They also are born, get married, die, & all the normal human things except that they live longer & can shapeshift.

37 posted on 03/07/2008 4:00:24 AM PST by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket

Thanks for that. I am now more sure than ever that they’re out of their freakin’ minds.


41 posted on 03/07/2008 4:09:32 AM PST by equaviator ("There's a plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: forkinsocket

Patrick McNee as Count Iblis in the old Battlestar Galactica.

44 posted on 03/07/2008 4:20:55 AM PST by 50sDad (Liberals: Never Happy, Never Grateful, Never Right.)
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To: forkinsocket; equaviator

Man was made from earth, angels from light and djinn from fire, according to the Koran.


61 posted on 03/07/2008 10:18:31 AM PST by Cronos ("Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, CAIR)
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