Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.ARPA
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mit-athena!martillo
From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: 3rd world savages
Message-ID: <48@mit-athena.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 22-Nov-84 07:04:01 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-athe.48
Posted: Thu Nov 22 07:04:01 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Nov-84 05:40:35 EST
References: <566@asgb.UUCP>, <234@rlgvax.UUCP> <12@mit-athena.ARPA> <240@rlgvax.UUCP> <2231@mit-hermes.ARPA> <50Re: Re: 3rd world savages
Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, Ma.
Lines: 18

If  Wayne  read the articles, I said Islam would have to undergo a major
reform or the  religion  would  have  to  be  stamped  out  (not  Muslim
peoples).

Having  requirements  to  conquer  your non-Muslim neighbors (if you can
win) and then to degrade and humiliate  non-Muslim  subjects  definitely
makes Islam religio non grata.

One  could  argue  that  Christianity  had  to wait until the eighteenth
century to overcome many similar  prejudices.   But  even  though  Islam
became  a  state religion several centuries later than Christianity, the
sort of ethical development I would like to  see  is  a  fairly  obvious
reform even for a young religion.

By the way, my mother's family a few decades ago were troglodytes living
in Southern Libya.  None of us engage in or would try to  apologize  for
or  rationalize  the  type  of disgusting barbarism which takes place in
large parts of the third-world.