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From: murali@cvl.UUCP (Muralidhara Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Islamic Mystics - The Sufi
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> > > ***
> > 
> > For example many people oppose religions other than their own;
> > and many people accept Islam { :-) }.
> > 
> > What I mean to say is that ALL religions have their weak points
> > and strong points. But some religions are, on the whole,
> > obviously better than others and, from the present day world events,
> > it appears that Islam is certainly not one of them.
> >              Comments?
> >                                                murali.
> 	
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> 
>  Don Steiny writes:
>
> 	There are 500 million Muslims in the world.  Many of them
> are peaceful.   I most certainly agree that it would be as foolish
> to judge Islam by its most enlightened members as it is to 
> judge it by its least.  In fact, it is foolish to judge it at
> all.  How could it be better or worse?  What can that mean?
> Does it mean I like one way of doing things better than
> another? 

You could judge a religion in relation to certain principles
which is generally accepted as good. For example consider
the principle:
 
  "Men and Women should both have (more or less) equal status
   in society in terms of social status, educational,
   economic and political rights."

In relation to this particular respect, Islam, or at least
the way it is practised in the Arab world, is 
the worst of all the religions I know of. Similarly
one could cite several other principles with respect to
which Islam is not good.

>
> 
> 	The thing people seem to be missing, is that even if
> Islam is the most evil vile religion that ever existed or ever 
> will exist, what are you  going to do about it?  Kill everyone
> that practices Islam?    Convert them to Christianity?
> Hey, they won the Crusades last time.
> 

I certainly do not want to proselytize any one. I only wish
they come to believe in humanism more than their religion.


                                   Murali.