Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!arig From: arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Islamic Mystics - The Sufi Message-ID: <756@cvl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 21:56:01 EDT Article-I.D.: cvl.756 Posted: Wed Aug 21 21:56:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 00:05:14 EDT References: <542@scc.UUCP> <755@cvl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.politics:10612 net.religion:7462 > > *** > > > > "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