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To: Keith Feral who wrote (84960)	11/9/2004 9:50:54 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793838

There is a very sad sense of truth to Muslim intolerance. You have no idea. Islam has been, by far, the bloodiest religion in the recorded history of man. It tenets allow slavery, which is still practiced in certain spots. And I'm sure I don't have to tell you about the lawfulness of killing infidels "wherever they may be found." The Muslim conquest of India several centuries ago made the Holocaust look like a walk in the park. More recently, the massacre of Armenians in 1915 was also on a par with the Holocaust. It is one hell of a bloody history. Traditional Islam does not believe in freedom. Every single detail of daily existence is predestined. There is simply no free will. In a word, islamic teachings are totally at odds with the notion of self-determination and freedom. The difficulty is that any Muslim who questions or renounces these tenets or the Q'Uran's proscriptions--and there lots more barbaric examples which time and space prevent me from listing--is deemed an apostate who may be lawfully killed. Given Islam's structure, it seems obvious to me that meaningful Islamic reform will be very difficult to accomplish. And the kicker is that we are living in an era of renewed Islamic fundamentalism, one in which the old bloody ways are glorified. If the past is prologue, watch out. The Guardian's Julie Burchill has an interesting series of articles, including one she wrote literally a few weeks before 9/11. guardian.co.uk Oriana Fallaci also gets it. nationalreview.com