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- From: eliedw@hedda.uio.no (Elie Dib Wardini)
- Subject: Re: ARAB UNITY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.163232.28699@ulrik.uio.no>
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- References: <18037.9211121000@thor.cf.ac.uk> <BxMvs4.B01@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov13.162550.1797@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:32:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.162550.1797@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
- rached@sample.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rached Zantout) writes:
- >In article <BxMvs4.B01@unix.amherst.edu>, ddsokol@unix.amherst.edu (D. DANIEL
- SOKOL) writes:
- >>
- >> How should Christian Lebanese feel about Islamic Unity where Christians will
- >> undoubtedly be discriminated against and persecuted for their religious
- >> beliefs.
- >> Danny Sokol-Amherst Colleg
- >i
- >
- >Danny,
- >
- >Please before saying something about 1 billion people and their tolerance
- towards
- >other religions please study history. How can you be certain that Christians
- will
- >be persecuted and discriminated against in an Islamic State ?
- >Did you study the Islamic law regarding Non-Muslims in an Islamic State ?
-
- YEs Rached, I have read some Islamic law and I would not accept to live under
- an Islamic state for many reasons:
-
- 1- I am not a muslim thus I am not bound by Islam.
- 2- Under Islam I am considered as a second class citizen.
- a- I am not equal to all citizens
- b- I am "protected" and not a free independant citizen
- c- etc. etc.
- 3- it is forbidden for Muslims to convert and become non-muslims
- 4- etc. etc.
-
- >Did you study the history of Non_Muslims in an Islamic State ?
- >I refer you to the history of Jews in Spain and how their golden age was under
- >the Muslims and how they were persecuted along with Muslims by the spanish
- >inquisition (sp?)
-
- Rached, history is full of all kinds of stories, some are positive others are
- not. THerfore refering to Spain as an example, it is possible to refere to
- Arabia and other places where Christians were not well treated and where Jews
- were not as welcome. The same about the inquisition of the Christins in Spain.
- NOte that this inquisition was not only directed against the Jews and the
- Muslims but also against Christains who were not of the same belief as the
- inquisitors.
-
- Every empire has had its golden age, and all have had their ages of babary!
-
- >
- >
- >rached
- >
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- elie wardini
-