Actually, the Koran is a template for a gentle, forgiving philosophy in the
main as well. Nowhere, for example, does it allow for the mistreatment of
women that the Taliban and other extreme groups practise - quite the reverse,
in fact.
I find it interesting that in Spain, from 800AD to approx 1400AD, Jews and
Muslims lived peaceably side by side, while pogroms occurred in Christian
Europe!
I'm afraid we must blame the clerics again - was it Henry IV who asked 'Who
will rid me of this troublesome priest', leading to the murder of Thomas a
Becket at Canterbury?
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
On Sunday, September 16, 2001 1:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> As many Americans have known for years, extreme religious fundmentalists that
> think they speak for god and that their religions are more important than
> people's human rights, are truly the greatest evil on earth. Fundamentalist
> Chrilstians, Jews and Muslims are all bascially the same evil in different
> clothing.........arrogant, ignorant and hate mongers.
>
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>
> - --Mike >>
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