Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpg!tan From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Islamic Mystics - The Sufi Message-ID: <1132@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:36:47 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1132 Posted: Sat Aug 24 02:36:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:23:31 EDT References: <756@cvl.UUCP> <501@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.politics:10626 net.religion:7466 > [Tim Maroney] > I am damn sick and tired of all you Don Black clones making bigoted and > prejudicial statements about Islam. I suggest that you crawl back into > whatever godforsaken hole spawned your butt-headed ilk. > I'll say it again: people like Ari Gross and the others who admit freely to > being prejudiced against Islam are on the same level as an anti-Semite like > Don Black. Not a smidgen better; perhaps worse because many of these people > claim to be tolerant. ---------------- I did not see Ari Gross's posting, so I do not know if he was attacking the beliefs and practices of Islam, or rather Islamic or nominally Islamic people. There is a crucial difference. If the former, it is at worst religious bigotry. This is very bad, but very different from the racism of Don Black, who condemns people for their ancestry. One can legitimately criticize religions or other belief systems. Criticizing someone for their ancestry is something else again. Of course, if Ari Gross or anyone else made bigoted and prejudicial statements about Arabs, Iranians, Turks, etc., then I agree with Tim. -- Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tan