Hi Mehdi, jmehdi wrote: > A book... that could represent either the Torah, the Bible or the Quran. > > Actually in Islam, monotheistic people are called "People of the > Book" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Book)
That excludes polytheistic and atheistic people. moreover it is potentially offensive to people for whom books = science. Fahrenheit 451 anybody? While I do see the merits of your request it feels to me like it would lead to a step on a wasp's nest. Jakob Petsovits called his a "minor note", but he pointed to the real problem: those are "mutually exclusive world views". A universal desktop should stay just that: open to all cultures and languages who accept that they are not the one and only truth (which implies that everybody else is lying). While most ordinary monotheistic people I know tend to be pragmatic and tolerate other views of the world, their religions still carry the dogma that can be resurrected at any time by extremists and that has been at the origin of most wars in human history. Yuv - of Jewish heritage, married civilly to a wife of Catholic heritage because none of the representatives of our two heritages could compromise to a joint ceremony. _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
