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From: nnk@cs.wayne.edu (Nasir Naseem Khawaja)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: "Not Without My Daughter"
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.150701.15936@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 5 Feb 91 15:07:01 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.092344.2678@nntp-server.caltech.edu> nnk@cs.wayne.edu (Nasir Naseem Khawaja) writes:
>In article <1991Jan29.085858.1082@nntp-server.caltech.edu> looi@sutro.sfsu.edu (Wan W. Looi) writes:
>
>>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?
>
>
> Do we care at all??? :-)
>
> His last sentence seems so much similar to a fable I heard in which a 
> guy wants to commit suicide but actually is afraid of it so he says:
>
> "I'm going to kill myself..... Anyone care to stop me???" :-D
> 
> I would have considered changing Mr. Looi's views on Islam, but his resolute
> tone gave his rigidity on the subject quite away.


	  After I replied to the article by Mr. Looi, I recieved
	  a lot of mail insisting that such replies were not in con-
	  junction with the teachings of Islam and that I should apol-
	  ogise to the original poster.

	  I still believe that the poster was quite explicit in conveying
	  his stubborness on the subject, viz. Islam = opression, and hence
	  feel no obligation to apologize to him. However, I will do what
	  I should have done when replying to the posting, i.e., stress
	  that my answer does not necissarily represent the view of every
	  Muslim. 

	  In light of the above observation, I believe that an apology 
	  would be in order, NOT to Mr.Looi, but to Muslims in general
	  for any possible ill-catagorising that the non-Muslims might
	  have done after reading my reply.

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