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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2142)10/15/2002 8:59:06 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2926
 
because it will be dead in what ...say...10 years...

(may muhammed live in the deepest recesses of burning hell)



To: Thomas M. who wrote (2142)10/16/2002 7:20:09 AM
From: lorne  Respond to of 2926
 
......." Why Are We So Afraid Of The Cultural Richness Of Islam?"....

Ah, did you miss the events of Sept.11? Or how about Bali, you notice anything on the news about that place. If we could ask a couple of milliom dead hindus slaughtered by muslims maybe they could tell us why.

Cutting off hands and feet for minor crimes or murdering innocent folks just because they do not believe in islam....is this the cultural richness referred to.

Yes tommy you are right up on things. can't put nothing past you.



To: Thomas M. who wrote (2142)10/16/2002 7:57:56 AM
From: lorne  Respond to of 2926
 
HOLY ka ka tommy if you have a dog as a friend get rid of it......More islam curtural richness...LOL

Iranian cleric denounces dog owners
Monday, 14 October, 2002
A conservative Iranian cleric has denounced the "moral depravity" of owning a dog, and called for the arrest of all dogs and their owners.
Dogs are considered unclean in Islamic law and the spread of dog ownership in Westernised secular circles in Iran is frowned upon by the religious establishment.

"I demand the judiciary arrest all dogs with long, medium or short legs - together with their long-legged owners," Hojatolislam Hassani is quoted as saying in the reformist Etemad newspaper.

"Otherwise I'll do it myself," said the outspoken cleric, who leads Friday prayers in the north-western city of Urumiyeh.

"In our country there is freedom of speech, but not freedom for corruption," he said.

Canine clampdown

Tehran journalist Mafiseh Kouhnavand told the BBC that the subject of dog ownership had been brought up many times before.

Hardline judiciary agents and police occasionally clamp down on the practice, fining owners and confiscating their pets from streets and parks.

In June, police banned the sale of dogs and penalised anyone walking a dog in public. The practice is seen by conservatives as a corrupting influence of decadent Western culture.

But despite the clampdowns, dog ownership has been on the rise, especially among rich Iranians in the north of Tehran.

"Now it has reached Urumiyeh, but some people were not ready for it," Ms Kouhnavand said.

Hojatolislam Hassani appears to be widening the scope of his anti-canine campaign.

Last year, he publicly thanked police for their policy of exclusively confiscating short-legged dogs in Urumiyeh.
news.bbc.co.uk



To: Thomas M. who wrote (2142)10/17/2002 10:41:58 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 2926
 
Re. the cultural richness of Islam, I don't think anyone is afraid of Islamic art (if all Moslem countries can validly be lumped together culturally(?)) or architecture or poetry or whatever. It's the terrorism that people have a problem with.