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From: martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Islamic Mystics - The Sufi
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 01:07:00 EDT
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/* csd2:net.politics / tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) / 12:26 am Sep 19, 1985 */


>None of the monotheistic religions are sexually egalitarian.  Judaism
>incorporates many discriminatory commandments and temple practices.
>Christianity also incorporates discriminatory temple practices and has
>historically been very sexist.  I don't see Moslems as being qualitatively
>different from Jews or Christians in this respect.

There is a major dispute which exists among the various schools of
Islamic Jurisprudence.  The schools dispute whether cutting off a
women's clitoris is wajib (required) or merely mustahab (commendable).
Clitoridectomies are an anathema to Judaism.  In the blessing after
meals, men say:

	We thank you God, our Lord ... for your covenant (refers to
	circumcision) that you engraved in our flesh. 

Jewish specifically prohibits Jewish women from saying this part of
the blessing so that noone would ever make the error of thinking
clitoridectomy is either required or even permitted in Judaism.

>This goes for every criticism of Islam I have heard put forth; it always
>comes down to seeing the mote in your neighbor's eye while ignoring the
>plank in yours.  Can anyone put forth a criticism of Islam which cannot be
>paralleled in Judaism or Christianity?  I doubt it very much, but am willing
>to entertain (public) suggestions.

Judaism neither prosyletizes nor requires war upon non-Jewish
populations nor requires humiliation of non-Jewish populations nor
requires degradation of non-Jewish populations.  

All of these rather disgusting behaviors are intrinsic parts of Islam.


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