Michel Boucher wrote:
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> (Glitter Ninja) wrote in
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> > 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.
YOu must never have lived in a Muslim neighbourhood. They do indeed
caricature Moses and Jesus. And they do not consider Moses and Jesus as
prophets equal to Muhammed.
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> > 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.
Islam recognises Islam as being superior to Christianity and Judaism.
Muslims believe that Jesus isn't God; that really is blasphemy to a
Christian.
>
> 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.
They don't. There are only about one billion Muslims on the planet. The
rest of the world's population (about 5 billion plus) isn't Muslim. Non
Muslims outnumber Muslims by rather a large margin.
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> "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