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From: brahme@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Islamic Mystics - The Sufi
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 17:00:00 EDT
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/* 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