From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 20 20:38:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F280F37B401 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA26619; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:38:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213112.0489f2f0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:38:14 -0600 To: Salvo Bartolotta , Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror) Cc: Elden Fenison , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:33 PM 10/20/2001, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: >I now gather that, at a doctrinal level, there exists no "moderate" Islam at >all. You are correct. In fact, according to Islamic law and doctrine, the creation or even the advocacy of a "moderate" Islam is itself punishable by immoderate measures (i.e. death). > Of course, strong political reasons make all western political leaders >speak of ahem "moderate Islam". What they're speaking of, of course, is tolerance and separation of church and state. Which the religion forbids but which many -- especially Turkish Muslims -- practice anyway. According to the doctrine of the religion, these people are apostates, because Islam forbids tolerance of infidels. (Again, see http://www.secularislam.org/) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message