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To: Xing Daorong
I don't understand, some people say that Islam is responsible for terrorism today

Two comments:

(1) The type of "Islam" that has been exported to the world by the Saudi oil money (funding "missionaries" and the building of mosques) is bent on violence and their cash has resulted in lots of converts to Muslim radicalism.

(2) Islam is in need of a "reformation" to purge it of some of its corrupt and ancient influences, just as has happened in the "Christian religions." It took some internal religious wars in Europe to remove the selling of injustices, to remove torture and execution of heretics, and to change a lot of things. Islam just needs to catch up to the age of enlightenment, so it can be tolerated by the rest of the modern world.

40 posted on 07/15/2006 12:04:12 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Robert357
2) Islam is in need of a "reformation" to purge it of some of its corrupt and ancient influences, just as has happened in the "Christian religions." It took some internal religious wars in Europe to remove the selling of injustices, to remove torture and execution of heretics, and to change a lot of things. Islam just needs to catch up to the age of enlightenment, so it can be tolerated by the rest of the modern world.

Beautifully stated.

149 posted on 07/15/2006 7:01:53 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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