Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uicsl Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!brahme From: brahme@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Islamic Mystics - The Sufi Message-ID: <11200001@uicsl> Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 17:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uicsl.11200001 Posted: Fri Sep 27 17:00:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 06:17:28 EDT References: <3630018@csd2.UUCP> Lines: 29 Nf-ID: #R:csd2.UUCP:-363001800:uicsl:11200001:000:1395 Nf-From: uicsl.UUCP!brahme Sep 27 16:00:00 1985 /* Written 9:56 am Sep 23, 1985 by martillo@csd2.UUCP in uicsl:net.politics */ /* csd2:net.politics / tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) / 12:26 am Sep 19, 1985 */ > >Judaism neither prosyletizes nor requires war upon non-Jewish >populations (except for a very few specific cases) nor requires >humiliation of non-Jewish populations nor requires degradation of >non-Jewish populations. > >All of these rather disgusting behaviors are intrinsic parts of Islam >vis-a-vis non-Muslims and non-Muslim populations. For this reason the >continued existence of Islam as a religious/political/social system is >unacceptable in the world today. > Prosyletizing is not limited to moslems. Christianity also vigorously encourages converting non-christians to christians. I have been approached several times by mormons and other christians, who had wanted to preach their message to me. On all occasions it has taken more than a polite NO to get rid of these people. In fact Hinduism (& its other derivatives like Buddhism, Jainism & Sikhism) is the only religion that i know which NEVER EVER converts anyone. It is a collection of beliefs evolved over a period of 5000 years. In India (where most of the Hindu's live) one does not hear of a debate of whether to have prayers in schools or not. It is left to the individual to pray (or not to pray) at his home. dan brahme