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To: one_less who wrote (584912)	9/10/2010 7:09:51 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) of 1577135

I'll tell you I don't take pleasure in posting negative info about Mohammed to you .... but I don't know how to avoid what I see as true. I work with Muslims every day .... just yesterday I was at a meeting and sat next to a colleague from an African country (he does work similar to mine in another division) and noticed him wearing one of those robe things that go from the next down to the ankles - really unusual for the office here and someone asked why - oh, its Ramadan, he said. Now Mo is a great guy just like a lot of other Muslims I've worked with ..... so I know that most Muslims aren't maddog killers and fanatics .... but ... when I look into why some Muslims are today in the modern world, I see its not just a matter of being from some backwater place and being ignorant and pre-modern ... no, many of the fanatics are well-educated, have lived in the west and turn to violent fanaticism as a result of their religious studies .... studies that feature the type of material I posted earlier from Ibn Ishaq, Tabari, Bukhari (the ancient biographers of Mohammed) ... iow they are getting back to the religions roots and there they find the warrant for violence and all sorts of bad things. -------------- "Attacks on Christianity have followed a similar program of taking things that are ARE from Christian sources - ancient and supposedly holy ones! Nevertheless one can't find material on Jesus similar to the stuff Muslims have preserved about Mohammed. --------------- Re rape stats comparing the US and Qatar - Qatar is a very different society .... most of the population is male contract workers from south Asia or the Arab world ... there aren't even many women - instead of the population being 50/50 m/f its more like 20f/80m. Plus there's a lot more social freedom in America which means more women are out and about and subject to attack. Another factor is stats will only show REPORTED rapes. Theres more social stigma in the ME for victims to hide rapes. And there are reasons for that stigma - this story isn't from Qatar but the UAE isn't far away, geographically and more important culturally: arabianbusiness.com

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