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- From: revans@euclid.ucsd.edu (Ron Evans)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic,talk.politics.mideast
- Subject: Re: Three troubling questions about Islam
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:19:32 GMT
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- <1h585iINNduk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cl056@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hamaza H. Salah) writes:
-
- >The crusaders took over Jerusalem over 90 years. And the crusaders were
- >backed by whole Euorpe at the time, as is the Israel now. Did muslim
- >gave up hope and said, "The cursaders are here to stay" and forgot about
- >Jersalem and Palestine? No my friend.
- >After 90 years muslims liberated Jerusalem by Salah El-Deen.
-
- Yes, the greatest of Kurds. Now look how the Kurds have
- been rewarded. They have no self-determination, and
- Iraq has obliterated over 4000 Kurdish towns and villages.
- Since Iraq continues to occupy and oppress Kurdistan,
- why is the existence of Iraq any more legitimate than that
- of Israel?
-
- >Israel took over Jerusalem since 1967, it's been only 93-67=26 years,
- > - or in the best case -
- >Israel existed since 1948, which is only 93-48 = 45 years.
- >If you can't continue the journey, step a side and let other people do
- >it while you're watching.
- >Islamic history repeats itself. Tatar came to Iraq and devistated most
- >of the muslim world. Did they last forever? No. Muslims came back
- >and defeated them. The same case with crusaders. And now, Islam is coming
- >back to do what it did before.
-
- >Is this unrealistic or is it not???
-
- Some in this nuclear age might consider it a bit unrealistic
- to model behavior on the period of the Crusades.
-
- --
- Ron Evans (revans@math.ucsd.edu)
-