[lit-ideas] Re: Convert! Or Die!
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:58:20 -0000
> Unlike other world religions, Islam is the only respected major
religion
> in which fundamentalism is mainstream
ah yes, all those hijab wearers
http://society.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1947595,00.html
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From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:49 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Convert! Or Die!
> Wow! Me a pacifist?
>
> In the real world, unfortunately, Convert or Die! is only
practiced by
> Islamists. That parody piece I sent some weeks ago about Tom
Ridge
> converting to Islam and the muezzin atop the Washington
Monument was
> based on a real al-Qaeda press statement from 2002 that people
in the
> West should convert to Islam or die. And that is the orthodox
practice
> that was used on the Fox News guys captured in Palestine
recently --
> they were given a chance to convert or to die.
>
> Unlike other world religions, Islam is the only respected major
religion
> in which fundamentalism is mainstream. Few Buddhists are in the
small
> boat; few Christians are snake handlers; few Jews are the
> ultra-orthodox. But in Islam, fundamentalism rules. Hence the
quest for
> moderate voices in a sea of jihad.
>
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