On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:18:29 -0700, Billy wrote:
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> sdr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Question: Is denouncing NAZI literature as "fascist" and "inciting
>> people to murder" ... "clearly crass and self-serving exercises that
>> pay lip service to the idea of freedom of speech while being little
>> more than vehicles for xenophobia?"
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> Where is the connection between Nationalist Socialism and Islam?
Mohammed Amin al-Husayni
> Islam
> never has called for ethnic cleansing. Until 1492, Moslems, Jews, and
> Christians lived peacefully in Moorish Hispania.
Spain was not part of the Arab empire, but was ruled by the descendents
of the only surviving Umayyad prince, who fled to Spain after the
Abbasids overthrew his family's dynasty and killed every one of his
relatives.
The success of multicultural Spain was not representative of greater
Islam, even at the time. It was in active rebellion against greater
Islam, both politically and theologically. It is an indication of what
Islam might have been, had different forces won within its internal power
struggles, but it's hardly an example of what Islam is, or what
mainstream Islam was.
--
I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men
have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years.
I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when
the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest
qualities of man can flourish only in free air - that progress made
under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no
permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another
into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields
up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
- H. L. Mencken
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