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From: ekrem@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Ekrem Saban)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Peace between Islam and Judaism
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Date: 27 Jun 91 13:28:01 GMT
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>In article <1991Jun26.133014.29749@wpi.WPI.EDU> gristle@ucscb.ucsc.edu (66016000) writes:


 >  I have currently been reading raging flames written by "white power" type
 >  people attacking Jews and eventually attacking Islam. They seem to be
 >  against all "dirty people." It sickens me to see continuing violence 
[...]

 >  Although I am Jewish, my best friends since childhood have been mixed
 >  Iranian and Jewish, and I can't see why anyone else need have so much
 >  trouble.... 

 >  I keep hearing reports of links between CIA people and Nazi war criminals,
 >  and I am inclined to believe that these may be true, and that the
 >  constant instigations that people have to attack Israel may be planted
 >  by foreigners.

 >  I have never heard opinions of any Middle-Eastern usenet users: how
 >  do you feel about these issues? Is it possible to reach peace between
 >  Jews, Moslems, and everyone else? Can we defeat these hate groups?


Hopefully yes. As a believing Muslim, I am sure that it is possible to
live peacefully together. But I'm afraid politicians in the middle
east are not so interested. James Baker is trying to find a solution,
but he is obviously powerless or weak against the unwilling government
of Israel. They seem not to want to co-exist with Muslims, and that
kind of behaviour is partly the source of mistrust. 

For example, on the entrance of the Knesset, it is said, is written
"from the Nile to Tigris" which many Muslims see as a manifestation of
zionism. It is be true that all this lands were promised to the Jews
thousands of years ago, but we believe also that they were offending
Moses and not believed in Jesus and that they have lost the right to get these
lands. You will hardly get some consens on such points of belief. But
it must be possible to accept each other and live together peacefully.
Like perhaps in times of Sulaiman the magnificient who invited the
jews to Istanbul who were dismissed from there. This time, the roles
have changed, and it is up to the Israelite government to be the
magnificiant...