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To: Gritty
I quite agree. Reading the English versions of online sources like Beirut's daily paper, I'm struck by how things that we'd list as related to individual liberty is instead described literally as "chaos" or "chaotic". Dissent is not acceptable in the Moslem world.
26 posted on 01/31/2004 8:28:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (the black stone would make a nice urinal in the White House.)
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To: SunkenCiv
things that we'd list as related to individual liberty is instead described literally as "chaos" or "chaotic"

Many people criticise "fundamental" Christianity and one reason is some adherents of it tends to be legalistic - no dancing, no movies, no pants on women, etc. And in a minor sense, that is true, but there is still wide latitude for individual freedoms even in the most legalistic of fundamentalist Christian sects.

Well, these critics of fundamentalist Christianity (most of whom think Islam is swell, and we should "tolerate" it - unlike fundamentalist Christianity) ain't seen nuthin' yet until they see how Islam operates. "Everything" in Islam is choreographed and legalistic, from the very specific dozens of movements required during daily prayers to the proper way to blow your nose or wipe your @$$.

In Islam, there is no freedom, only control, only Islam. It is as alien to Western culture, American thought and Biblical precepts as you can get.

27 posted on 01/31/2004 8:59:25 AM PST by Gritty ("We are in a race for civilization like none other since World War II"-Victor Davis Hanson)
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