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To: AmericanVoter who wrote (292)	11/20/2001 3:06:36 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 758

Mr. Alsuezi, Well, since you started the thread, SI allows you the choice of blocking folks. Permit me say this...I have started a few threads on SI and unless an individual makes threats to others or uses curse words, perhaps excessively, or at all, I would not block them. Diverse opinion, not only generates agitation, but consideration of other's points of view. In the longer term, freedom of speech, enriches humanity and makes for a stronger society. But that is my philosophy and does not need to be yours. Best wishes, len

To: AmericanVoter who wrote (292)	11/20/2001 9:54:57 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 758

Amein, you may want to look at the following article, and I would be interested in your comments: theatlantic.com (provided to me by one that can no longer post here). I found it interesting that in older times, the same parchment was used more than once to write the holy scriptures (a fragment of the Yemenite Qurans definitely shows such over write). I have a question, as a "rationalist". If finally those Yemenite versions of the Quran see the light of day, and there are some variations from the Quran today, would that cause you to lose faith? I for one, have clearly accepted that the old testament had a "life" and evolved to its current form through a "purification" process of rewriting and scribing time and time over. That fact, should in no way diminish the "faith", but from your posts here, it seems that everything in Islam turns around the immutable principle that the Quran in your hands today is indeed the absolute word of the all mighty with no modification or interpretation allowed. Do you think that an unequivocal discovery of a Quran from the seventh or eighth century that differs from today's Quran will cause the collapse of the Islamic faith? Zeev