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Subject: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism
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Yakim Martillo writes:
> 
> Muslims over the past millenium have subjected non-Muslims under their
> rule to systematic humiliation and degradation which are mandated by
> all schools of Islamic jurisprudence.  Further the contempt which  Islam
> encourages Muslims to feel toward non-Muslims has caused periodic persecution
> and pogroms directed at non-Muslims in all corners of the Islamic world.
... and more somewhat extreme anti-Muslim views.

I would like to request that such displays of intolerance be kept off 
net.lang.india: we have plenty of our own home-grown prejudices,
and have no need to embroil ourselves in the politics of West Asia.
Bigotry is ugly whether it is anti-Jew or anti-Muslim. Incidentally, I
think Indians can afford to be sanctimonious about their tolerance
to Judaism: India is probably the only country where Jews were always
allowed to live in peace. Witness the 500-year-old synagogue in Cochin,
or the (now much reduced) Jewish community in that area that has
existed, I believe, since the time of the destruction of the Second 
Temple(?).