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At 9:17 AM +0000 10/11/01, cas@... wrote:
>
>  > It's definitely the people, but maybee the people you mean, are the
>>  people Who DON'T PRACTICE what they preach.
>
>Exactly. which is why it pisses me off that the Taliban, Osama bin
>Laden and others are profaning Islam in this manner, and that
>many of the uninformed in the West see Osama bin Laden's
>diatribes as being represntative of Islam, which it isn't. No matter
>how many times this is repeated, many people simply will not
>get this, and continue to believe that all Muslims share these
>radical views.

I don't necessarily think there is a feeling that they *all* do or 
even that *most* of them do.  There is just an awful lot of evidence 
that too god damned many of them do.  I really do not want to resent 
the Islamic creed but it would certainly be easier to avoid resenting 
it if some of the clerics would be a little quicker to renounce those 
supposedly within the faith who are abusing it.

As someone whose life has been very directly and negatively affected 
by Christian fundamentalism I can tell you that I could not agree 
more that Islamic fundamentalists have no monopoly on fucked up 
behavior.   But having said that it still does not excuse the fucked 
up behavior of Islamic fundamentalists.

I am pretty much an atheist or at least do not subscribe to any 
organized religion but it is interesting to note that Buddists rarely 
get accused of this kind of intolerance.
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