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To: ZULU
...There are Muslims out there who recognize Wahhabism for the revisionist kind of violent, intolerant, hateful belief it is, which is responsible for not only acts of violence against non-Muslims... Revisionist? Hardly. The Koran (passages can be cited if you need them) and history support the FACT that the violent, aggressive wahhabi style Islam is the fundamentalist sect of Islam, and militate against your theory. Nothing revisionist about it.

Islam is not peace. Islam is violence and death and repression. One need look no further than every single islamic country on earth to see the persecution of every non-muslim, not to mention the dictatorial styles of governments used by islamic countries. Islam is not peace. I reject your theory and I reject the U.S. govt's official position that islam is peace and that all religions are equally true. Logic itself disproves that all relgions are equally true.

94 posted on 06/14/2002 10:35:06 AM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
Hey, Ex-Marine, I agree with you to a degree and certainly am not a subscriber to the theory that Islam is a peaceful religion.

What I am saying is that the face of modern Fundamentalist Islam is the face of the Wahhabi sect, that not all Muslims are Wahhabists, and that Wahhabism is NOT traditional Islam.

Anyone who has read a modicum of history knows that in the PAST, Christians and Jews fared far better under Islam than did Muslims under Christianity. Although in the PAST, Christians and Jews were allowed to practise their faith under Islam, Jews were barely tolerated, frequently persecuted and continually attacked under CHristian rule. Muslims under Christian rule were either exterminated or driven out - very quickly - most so-called "Christians" of the time apparently believing Muslims were Pagans as you seem to.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism have the same roots, worhsip essentially the same God and practise a religion based on morality and ethics. If anything, Islam and Judaism are purer forms of Monotheism than is Christianity with its confusing concept of three equal person in one devine entity.

Traditional Muslims believe in One God, they believe in all the Judaic prophets, they consider Christ the product of a Virgin Birth and the second most important prophet next to Mohammad. They also consider Jews and Christians as people of the Book, i.e. people whose religion is based on the same beliefs as theirs, yet not fully evolved as they have not accepted Mohammad and the Koran - sort of the same way Christians have traditionally accepted Jews - when they weren't burning them at the stake.

I hate people who are trying to kill me or destroy my country. I don't hate people because of their essential religious beliefs. They can believe what they want as long as thye leave me and my country alone and personally, I'd be happier if Muslism were kept out of here until this terrorism can be stopped. But I'm not a religious bigot. I think you are. All roads that lead to God are Good Roads, as long sa they are not built over the corpses of other Human Beings.

111 posted on 06/15/2002 8:20:10 PM PDT by ZULU
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