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Michel Boucher

(Glitter Ninja) wrote in
:

> sf > writes:
>
>>The Danish caricature depicted Mohamed (not just "any muslim") as
>>a terrorist and that's what made them so mad. In any case, I
>>think they are being hypocritical because they put caricatures of
>>Jews and Christians in their newspspers daily.

But not caricatures of Moses or Jesus. They hold Moses and Jesus to be
Prophets equal to Muhammad, although they hold that Muhammad being the
most recent is the more accurate.

> I just read a post on LiveJournal (I can link it if you want) by a
> gentleman who spent some years in the Middle East. He said that a
> Muslim traditionalist will say that other religions can take
> criticism because that religion is false.

Not true. Islam recognizes Christianity and Judaism as divinely
revealed religions. However, they do believe that the revelations have
been corrupted and it is the corruption that they attack.

You can argue that that is hypocritical, but that won't change
anything. Personally, I don't like the idea of someone, either George
Bush or some Shi'ah leader, telling me that I *must* live in a
theocracy. But I can see their point. If people who profess to being
Christians cannot clean the corruption in their relationship to their
holy book, why should anyone have respect for them? Much the same
holds for Randites and Marxists...and for Muslims too.

Unfortunately for our point of view, they outnumber us.

--

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why
the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Dom Helder Camara