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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (68842)	3/19/2003 6:50:46 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Did the Jews kill Mohammed, also? Did they kill Allah? If I recall correctly, it is not from lack of trying that they did not kill Mohammed. By the way, "Allah" is just the Arabic word for "God". Muslims do not think they have a different god than Christians or Jews. Quran clearly says (in first person singular) that it is the same God who sent the first two religions. The problem in the Middle East is caused by Zionism I agree. Not that I ever expect to get around to it in this life, but in the back of my head, I have always had a little list of subjects to chose from and write a treatise on if one day I have half a year to spend - in my teens, it was men's obsession with football (then I saw it was pretty simple - "panem et circences" and all that...), another is the process of believing (as in, how does one form a belief with no proof, be it astrology or faith in God). One other subject of interest is the contact between Knights Templar and Hassan Sabbah's group (shelved that one after reading "Foucault's Pendulum", really, as I will probably never write as well on the subject as Umberto Eco) Coming back to the subject, one recent addition to subjects I would be interested to research and analyse is the Jews' "fight" for the creation of the state of Israel, how it differed from traditional wars of independence (i.e. people who want a land of their own generally fight for it and beat the actual inhabitants of that land), repercussions of this method, power and dependency structures involved, etc. I find the subject fascinating. I guess it must be if you have never heard of any anti-semitism among "non-Jews." I have. Still, it did not prepare me for the contempt Jews feel for non-Jews, based not on others discriminating against them, but on a very strange concept of their racial superiority.