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"Ralph Goff" <iamgoff@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3E1276AE.C0FA8C62@austin.rr.com...
> James Ascher wrote:
>
> > "Monte" <montep@email.com> wrote in message
> > news:3d263df4.2351641@news.ev1.net...
> > > After reading the following Associated Press story I would like anyone
> > > to please explain to me, because I cannot fathom the explanation
> > > myself, the following things?
> > >
> > > 1. What part of a culture such as described should be celebrated and
> > > embraced?
> >
> > East of Iran was never is not truly Muslic.  The glorious civilization
that
> > the Muslims built was centered in Iraq and later Turkey.  The last bit
of
> > Muslim empire ceased in the 1920 when modern Turkey replaced the Ottoman
> > Empire.
> >
> > >
> > > 2. Where is the compassion, the all encompassing(both sexes) love and
> > > respect that we are told is inherent and explicit in the Islamic
> > > faith?
> >
> > The cultural values of these people overweigh the religious values just
as
> > not all Christian practice the love, respect, and compassion taught in
the
> > Bible.
> >
> > > 3. Why should anyone believe anything a Muslim says about their
> > > religion when acts of barbarism equal to anything done a thousand
> > > years ago continue to occur seemingly daily in Muslim countries?
> >
> > Compare the grisly Crusades, the Inquision, and the religious wars of
the
> > 15th century and later.  There was much barbarity in those acts too.
> >
> > > 4. Why should not any or all Muslims be held accountable until such
> > > acts of atrocity cease?
> >
> > Why shouldn't all Christians be held accountable for their acts of
atrocity
> > that have caused far more carnage than the Muslims?
> >
> > James
>
> This is the twenty first century isn't it?
> There's no excuse.
> Since you feel the way you do, try living with your wife/young daughter in
that
> region while at the same time enjoying the freedoms of speech/life/etc.
that
> you have here.
> When your daughter has been raped to shame your family or you are made to
beat
> your wife senseless, because of the music you listen to or because you
were
> seen walking with someone from a "lesser" tribe,  you'll realize like the
rest
> of us how moronic and ruthless these people are.

Just because it's the 21st century doesn't mean that all people are equally
advanced: look at the GOP - they want to take us back to the 17th or 18th
centuries with theocracy!

James