On Mar 15, 2:59=A0pm, "M. Ranjit Mathews" <ranjit_math...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> On Mar 15, 1:54 am, s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> > In a Washingtonpost.com article, "The Spell
> > of Islamophobia" Eboo Patel wrote:
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> > > I spoke about how Muslim history and
> > > theology support religious pluralism.
>
> > Today only a few Christian souls remain of
> > what was an Egypt which was once all Christian.
>
> No pagan souls remain in Egypt which was once all pagan.
>
> > The last few surviving Christians are even now
> > leaving Iran and Iraq. In the East, where Islam
> > has but only recently taken over countries like
> > Indonesia, Thailand, and the like... and in Africa
> > the old civilizations there are in abeyance and
> > steady retreat under the unrelenting violence
> > and intimidation of Islam
>
> Paganism in Europe disappeared under the unrelenting violence and
> intimidation of ___ (fill in the blank).
Christianity and Islam almost completely destroyed the pagan cultures
of the Middle East and Europe. It is no use aguing which of the two
was more brutal, IMO both Xtianity and Islam have been the most
expansionist, imperialistic religions in human history.
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