The Baha'i Studies Listserv On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Iskandar Hai, M.D. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am a man from Mars. Argue your points from a rational point of view, not > because `Abdu'l-Baha said something in defense of Islam to a Christian > audience. > Well if you were from Mars I'd probably want to know about your Martian beliefs in order to figure out how much common ground we had. But let's say you weren't Bahai/Babi or Muslim on the one side, or pacifist on the other... I would probably point out that according to some sources, the raids were an attempt to recover property which the Muslims had lost to the Meccans when they became refugees during the hijra. > > No, I was not condemning Islam. I am just stating the facts such as jihad and > the > facts that were in that video. Or permission to beat your wife. These are > facts. In > my view, they mean that the time of Islamic. Dispensation has passed. It's > not a > condemnation. > I don't appreciate being lectured at regarding what a moral code of conduct > for a > Baha'i should be. I'd like to be given the latitude of making my own judgment > based on my own understanding. I think that if you don't like being told what Bahais are supposed to believe, then I would ask you to keep that feeling in mind before you lecture Muslims about what Islam teaches. You should give Muslims the latitude to make their own judgement based on their own understanding. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-549292-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
