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From: arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross)
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Subject: Re: Re: Islamic Mystics - The Sufi
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 21:56:01 EDT
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> > ***
> > 
> > 	"People oppose things because they are ignorant of them."
> > 
> > 		Imam el-Ghazali
> > 			12th Century Islamic mystic
> > 
> > 	I am happy to report that 100% of the mail I have recieved
> > about my pleas for tolerance and understanding of Islam have supported
> > this position.   


            Why should anyone be tolerant of Islam ? How tolerant is
ISLAM of others ?  Non-believers cannot get tourist visas to visit 
countries like Saudia Arabia and Kuwait, Moslem fundamentalists
have made car bombs in Beirut an everyday occurrence, Iran and Iraq
have been busy diplaying  their mutual admiration for each other
(at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives), and Quadaffi has
been very effective at 'eliminating the competition'. Kind of makes
Yasser Arafat look like a nice guy (he only throws grenades at
schoolchildren). If the world was ever taken over by Moslems there'd
be a whole lot of tolerance to go around : let's see, we could choose
whether we wanted to wear a red-braided or black-braided khaffiyeh....

'Nuff said.

                               Ari Gross
                               arig@cvl.arpa