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Originally posted by RevRuby:
i believe that if you read the whole thread you will see that my husband has made it clear he dislikes islamofacists, not muslims as a people. he has studied and looked into things.
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That's great to hear, but really my post was directed towards Morgeraut and not at you or your husband.
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Originally posted by RevRuby:
the fact that you feel that muhammed (?spelling?) had a right defend himself violently proves that the islamic church was based on violence. whether or not that is how it is today is kind of hard to tell.
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Sure it was, but then every religion/belief has its fair share of historical violence - it doesn't mean that the violence becomes unseperable from the religion which was the point I was trying to make.
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Originally posted by RevRuby:
all of us seem to want to point fingers at those who think differently than ourselves..
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Well darn, I didn't think I was pointing figures at anyone - indeed the whole point of my post was to try and halt the pointing of fingers!
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Originally posted by RevBuby:
but the anger here reallys hould stop and i do wish either people would leave this thread or a mod would shut it down. no one is learning anything here.
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I'm certainly not angry and I think, considering the emotive topic, that tempers have been kept quite well all things considered.
As for learning things - I've certainly found it informative looking through the thread, and if just one person is encouraged to do some independent research about Islam rather than rely on a specific type of source then this thread will have acheived something worthwhile...
[ 02-09-2005, 12:54 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]