On 1/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Doesn't the Bahai faith have laws which Bahais are supposed to
> follow?
> > In your mind, how is the orthopraxy you attribute to Islam, different
> > from the obedience which is required in the Bahai faith?
> Dear Gilberto,
> Yes, and disobeying certain of those laws can result in sanctions. But
> they will not get your removed from the rolls or beyond the pale of what it
> means to be a Baha'i.
And I thought we had talked about this before in terms of Islam.
Mainstream Sunni Islam is historically very reluctant to pronounce
takfir. It is well-established that sinning alone (in terms ordinary
vices and misdeeds) doesn't take you out of Islam. It just makes you a
bad Muslim.
-Gilberto
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