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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Re: Islamic Mystics - The Sufi
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:36:47 EDT
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> [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.
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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.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan