[lit-ideas] Re: Takiyyah
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:57:53 -0800 (PST)
Actually this thread has picked on and enlarged upon
an isolated point in the article I posted, but I could
hardly expect otherwise. I just hope that Eric will
assure me that, when someone puts a knife on his
throat and asks him how much he has on himself, he
will answer in accordance with the universal standards
of truth and falsehood.
O.K.
--- Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>Don't we privilege this practice by referring
> to it as a "truth culture"? It's lying. Non-Muslim
> people lie for exactly the same reasons. Lawyers,
> for example, are tasked with defending their
> clients, and consider it good and appropriate to
> position and shape statements that benefit their
> clients.
>
> Let me try to make this clearer. You have group A,
> which is inclusive, welcoming, and operates under
> what it considers to be universal standards of
> truth and falsehood. You have group B, which is
> exclusive, clannish, and operates solely for its
> own benefit.
>
> To call it a Culture of Lying is to posit a
> difference in lying itself! But it isn't lying
> that changes. It's the Group. It's all determined
> by group attitudes toward strangers, not by the
> nature of truth and falsehood.
>
>
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