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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Arab tolerance
Message-ID: <693@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 22:43:19 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  8 22:43:19 1985
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Reply-To: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
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In article <187@hector.UUCP> martillo@hector.UUCP (Yakim Martillo) writes:
>By the standards of the Middle Ages Islam may have been slightly more
>tolerant than Christianity but much of Christian intolerance was
>learned from Muslims.

I would really like to see that statement supported by some evidence.

>The inquisition did nothing which the Almohades
>had not done centuries earlier.

Oh, obviously:  because somebody else did it earlier that's who the
Christians learned it from.  Incontrovertible proof!

>In any case my point was that until
>Islam shows some tolerance by *modern* standards, Islam is
>unacceptable as a social/political/religious system in the modern
>world and Muslims should not be permitted to rule territories.

That must explain why you keep harping on how Muslims have *always*
treated non-Muslims badly:  we're supposed to infer a completely different
point from it.

Is any of this really relevant to net.nlang.india?
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