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From: sabet@athena.mit.edu (Sabet A Chowdhury)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: "Not Without My Daughter"
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Date: 1 Feb 91 17:04:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jan29.085858.1082@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, looi@sutro.sfsu.edu (Wan W. Looi) writes:
|> 
|> I saw a movie titled "Not Without My Daughter" recently and the scenes in
|> the movie still linger in my mind as much as on Betty Mahmoody's mind.
|> In the movie, I saw how women was estranged, maltreated, beaten, etc.....
|> I mean the scene was just "unthinkable" for people of my culture
|> upbringing. I have a very negative feeling towards Islam myself, and
|> after seeing this movie and what Saddam Hussein has done to the world,
|> my negative feeling has escalated.
|> 
|> Does anyone care to comment?

What does Saddam have to do with Islam? I wish people would realize that he
doesn't speak for Islam, and that whatever is going on in the Middle East has 
nothing to do with religion, but rather politics. Besides, do you have any 
idea as to where the US is fighting from? Saudi Arabia, another "Islamic"
country. 

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