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From: agrawal@acf2.UUCP (Mukul Babu Agrawal)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 13:13:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 13:13:00 1985
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>>> been or are under Islamic subjugation, might have some legitimate grievances
>>> against the Islamic world and that they might have some legitimate claims
>>> for compenstation for Islamic mistreatment.
>>> 
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>>The following identity is FALSE :
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>>Muslim = Arab = Anti-semitic = Anti-israel
>>
>>However, it is conveniently used by political demagogues to
>>further their own agenda.
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>Since I never made the equation, this particular reply is a particularly 
>slimy attempt to avoid a legitimate issue.  A system like Islam may have
>bad aspects.  In India for example caste and the suttee have been in the
>past part of the system of Hinduism.  Criticism of such practices is 
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>legitimate.  
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>Calling criticism  of such practices  bigotry or illegtimate   is pure
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>intellectual cowardice or dishonesty.  Since most Muslims and Jews who
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	However , Mr. Martillo's slandering of the Muslim religion did not
have any specific practices but was nothing but HATE-MAIL . Like Muslim,
christianity or the Hindu religion , every religion has its bad points
and the religion itself cannot be derided.


>From: martillo@mit-hector.UUCP (Yakim Martillo)
>
>In fact, in no country ruled by Muslims are non-Muslims treated on
>terms of mutual respect and equality by the dominant Muslims (and I
>have lived in Turkey and Tunisia).  Until Muslims renounce sleazeball
>Islam and Muslims change there scuzz attitudes toward non-Muslims,
>Israel, India, Singapur, the Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia and
>other nations in similar situation have a legitimate right and
>obligation to their non-Muslim populations to suppress Muslims under
>their control......

	I do not think that such attitudes can be attributed to the Muslims
more than any other religion (especially christianity).

	As to the mention of the rights of countries to suppress the
Muslim population,I was just wondering if Mr. Martillo is an Israeli.

I would also like to add that I do not believe that any countries have
such rights and nor do I believe that India does suppress the Muslim
population of India in any way.

					Mukul