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Abdelsalam Heddaya writes:
>religion (Islam) at home, at school, and at the mosque.  I was taught that
>Islam is the religion of tolerance, that violence can only be condoned in
>self-defense, and even then, God (=Allah in arabic) loves and rewards those
>who forgive.

Bill Oliver writes:
>So, let me defer to a true believer, the one, the only, Ayatollah Ruhollah 
>Khomeini himself - no piker when it comes to Islamic law, let me tell you.
>The following is from a speech given December 12, 1984, the birthday of 
>Mohammed, and is taken from the April, 1985 edition of Harper`s.
   >Thanks to God, our young people are now, to the limits of their
   >means, putting Gods commandments into action.  They know that to kill
   >unbelievers is one of man`s greatest missions."

I write:
The *word* as delivered by the various sects of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity
(and lots of others too numerous to mention here) is often idealistic. Problem
is, that same word is interpreted by homo sapiens, any particular one seeing 
or distorting things within the context of their own particular dialectic, 
culture, passions, or mental aberrations.

No matter the lunatic extremist--Khomeini, Meyer Kahane (sp?), Jim Jones,
James Lincoln Rockwell, or Stalin--there will always be horror committed and
insanity spread. And these same people will always draw other loons to them.

The *word* matters little--what is done with the word is the crux of it.

Just a thought.

-- Jeff Shore, ..!ihnp4!druri!jhs

"You can't call ME crazy!! I'll kill ya!!!"