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From: shari@zahle.wpi.edu (Shari Deiana VanderSpek)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Sufism
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.173840.14237@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 28 Jun 91 17:38:40 GMT
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In article <1991Jun28.173148.6370@wpi.WPI.EDU> hanif@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Hanif G
 Khalak) writes:
>       Just a comment about the quarrels between the Turkish members on
>the net:  S.R.I. has no obligation to subsume conversations about Islam
>on every newsgroup this side of eternity, and it's moderated status has no
>relation to the problems in soc.culture.turkish.  [moderator, please comment
>if I'm wrong!  :)]  In fact, it would seem that an argument about Turkish
>culture or politics (modern) would be irrelevant in S.R.I., but a similar
>argument about an Islamic issue, Turkiye being what it has been and says it
>is (a Muslim country), might have direct relevance to Turkish culture.
>       If you want, a newsgroup like 'talk.politics.turkiye' or
>'talk.secular.turkiye' would achieve your wish.  Just submit a
>CFD:newsgroupname  (Call for Discussion) to new.newsgroups.


You are correct. :)  But this article was submitted to S.R.I. like any other
post, and I added the comment at the beginning so that readers would not 
wonder where the ongoing discussion came from.  Thanks.


       "A people can never be free at the expense of another people."
                                        -Galia Golan, Member of Peace Now
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