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[image: Link to Citizen Warrior] <http://www.citizenwarrior.com/> ------------------------------ Posted: 09 Dec 2014 12:55 PM PST <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PG9NN35dBtI/VIdhkUbndmI/AAAAAAAAFIQ/1ZJkk9TPNuc/s1600/easter-island.jpg> In a long conversation on the Young Turks (which you can watch *here* <http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2014/11/a-constructive-argument-about-islam.html>), Sam Harris was making the point that Islam is not like other religions in important ways. He said if we put a group of people on a remote island and gave them the Koran and said "this is the way you should live," and we came back in a thousand years and they lived like *ISIS* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant>, it would not be a surprise. But if you gave them the *Pali Canon* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81li_Canon> (Buddhist doctrine) and came back in a thousand years and they lived like ISIS, it would be a big surprise because there is nothing in the Pali Canon that would lead to you expect to find sex slaves or beheadings or forced conversions or any of the rest of the things ISIS is doing. But there is quite a bit in *the doctrines of Islam* <http://www.cspipublishing.com/> that would lead you to expect those things. The *doctrine *is different. What it says its followers should do is different. This point is sometimes difficult to get through to people. Using this analogy might help to make it clearer. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CitizenWarrior?a=KFocTcXV1cY:3FOd65L9XKE:gIN9vFwOqvQ> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CitizenWarrior?a=KFocTcXV1cY:3FOd65L9XKE:V_sGLiPBpWU> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CitizenWarrior?a=KFocTcXV1cY:3FOd65L9XKE:qj6IDK7rITs> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CitizenWarrior?a=KFocTcXV1cY:3FOd65L9XKE:-BTjWOF_DHI> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CitizenWarrior?a=KFocTcXV1cY:3FOd65L9XKE:63t7Ie-LG7Y> Email delivery powered by Google __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmMW80M2NiBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MTgyNTYxNDg-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlM2MwOGtzBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQxODI1NjE0OA--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
