I had the privilege to spend a short amount of time with the head of the local CAIR organization when the local Muslim community was being pilloried by a rather narrow minded school board candidate. It gave me a great deal of insight into their religion, of which I knew little, and a much better understanding of the difficulties they face in today’s society.
Every religion or following always seems to have its fringe elements that distort and often misquote its doctrine to “fit” their particular interpretation. The mainstream members are usually embarrassed and do their best to distance themselves from these groups. I firmly believe this to be the case with the majority of the people who are practicing Muslims. Examples can be found throughout history. The Inquisition is my personal favorite when it comes to examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJZ2m6_T1wc One could easily say the same abut the Opus Dei folks of the Roman Catholic Church, for example….. Thanks to all for keeping this conversation civil and insightful. While the subject matter can be controversial, there’s certainly nothing wrong with intelligent discussions about it. Dan > On Nov 2, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > The Muslim leadership in most countries preaches tolerance and not convert or > die, its far to easy to lump the extremists in with the radical crazies. > > If you'd like to play that game I'd point you to the Westboro Baptists... > > -Curt > > > ________________________________ > From: LarryT via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 3:53 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - another non-political B-52 tale - FINALE & QUICK > DEPARTURE > > > mao, > Wow - you really had to go a long way back to find that example. Got > anything newer? IMO, when the church began to be less managed by > monarchs interested in expanding territory and more managed by religious > types who read the Bible and realized Jesus has a forgiveness game plan > and not a "convert or die" game plan. OTOH, the muslims have been > pretty much using the same tactics since the MIddle Ages except Battle > Axes have been (mostly) replaced by machetes and "Suicide Vests." > > LarryT > 91 300D > > > > > > On 11/1/2014 8:38 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes wrote: >> Hasn't church also proven to have the same objective? >> viz. crusades and current missions efforts? >> I tend to see many similaritie > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
