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From: ashcroft@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Dazed and Confused)
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Subject: Re: South Africa Terrorizes Southern Africa
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Date: Sun, 12-Oct-86 13:51:17 EDT
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In article <1255@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> martillo@trillian.UUCP (Yakim Martillo) writes:
>
>As for Ashcroft he has already proven his antiSemitism in previous
>articles.  This article shows his basic ignorant Western chauvinism.
>Very few religions have incorporated contempt for non-believers into
>fundamental principles.  Christianity and Islam may be unique.
>Neither Judaism, nor Hinduism, nor Buddhism, nor Daoism, nor Greek
>paganism nor Roman paganism has doctrines requiring the humiliation of
>non-Believers.  Since Ashcroft as an ignoramus only knows a little
>about Christianity, he assumes that all other belief systems are
>similar.

mmmm...
lesseee now... Hindus (traditional) consider non hindus unclean, the Romans 
had Xtians eaten, the Greeks considered non-Greeks to be Barbarians (origin
of the word) the Biblical jews seem to have had a fun time wiping out the
philistines.  The Sinhalese Buddhists are gleefully wiping out the Hindu
Tamils (of course this might JUST be plain racism...).  Actually the one
case of fairly peaceful coexistence of religions that I can think of (I mean
in history) is in India where the Mughals ruled over the Hindus.  Of course
this disintegrated later at the end of the British Raj.  And now the Hindus
are killing the Bangladeshi refugees (Muslim) in Assam - the Hindus also are
fighting the Sikhs.  Face it Martillo - Most religious groups will vigorously
persecute any minority groups in their midst....

Actually Martillo I know not even a little Christianity... 
The west is only different in that we have over time been able to throw off
the shackles of the religious organizations that previously ran our lives.

Before we brought the Christian churches to heel they didn't just extort or
humiliate nonbelievers they killed them.  And if you ever listen to an
evangelist you know that given half a chance they would gladly do so in the
future.

I am not antisemitic.  Tarring with that brush is a nasty and effective way
of slandering someone but I won't let it stick.