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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (52124)9/14/2001 6:05:52 PM
From: Sam Citron  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
slavery ... is still practiced widely out there

Zeev,

I basically agree with most of what you have said. But isn't slavery fundamentally inimical to Islam? One of the reasons Islam has been so successful in India, for example, has been as an antidote to the rigid caste system. Islam preaches that there is no difference between the untouchable and the Brahmin, a subversive and most appealing message to the disenfranchised. So how could Islam be compatible with slavery?

I have visited several Islamic nations including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco and Indonesia and never heard of or saw slavery. I have, of course, heard of a "white slave market" in North Africa but know nothing about it.

I would not be totally surprised if this barbaric practice still exists in some remote part of the world. But can you provide any evidence whatever to back up your statement that "slavery ... is still widely practiced out there"? [emphasis mine] Practiced somewhere perhaps, but how widespread?

As for the condemnation of "decadent western music" that you point out, here perhaps is an area for potential dialog and rapprochement with these "aliens". On this point I would gladly join the subversive band of Jesse Helms and the Ayatollahs. ;-)

Shalom,
Sam
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