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>From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: RE: Bush's War on Terrorism
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:14:32 -0700
>
>>
>>This is NOT 'shia", Grant. Where in the world are you getting this from?
>>Read Karen Armstrong's THE BATTLE FOR GOD for a nice intro. to Muslim (and
>>Jewish and Christian) fundamentalism.
>>
>>Lawrence
>>
>> > accomplishing their goals. One side worships science, technology and
>> > democracy. The other wants to impose shia on the rest of the
>> > world. Shia
>> > (cutting off the hands of theives, stoning women for adultery, killing
>> > people who don't believe in your religion in its most recent
>> > interpretation)
>> > is not something the rest of the world is going to accept.
>>
>If the people who are preaching it call it "shia" (and I'll admit I don't
>have a reference handy to make sure I've spelled it properly) then to them
>that's what it is. What we call a thing is how we see it.
>
>The Afghans, the Iranians, the Saudis have all engaged in this behavior and
>are promoting it as the way of God. If other muslims don't believe in it,
>that doesn't make it less of a real threat from those who practice and
>promote it. Not all muslims want to crash airplanes into our buildings,
>but
>that doesn't mean we don't have to watch out for those who do. The new
>"word of God" as preached in all the schools sending people to fight in the
>war against Americans may not be the "true" word of God, but it is the word
>against which we have to defend and protect ourselves. Call it what you
>will. It is out there in the muslim community and it is growing in
>popularity. Al qaeda members came from America, Britain, Pakistan, Arabia,
>Malaysia, Yemen, etc., etc. It's not just in muslim countries where this
>new gospel is being preached. If they weren't out to kill us, we could
>probably ignore it. Since they are, we can't.
>
>
>
Are you thinking of "sharia" or Islamic law? Shi'a are one of the two main
streams of Islam, the other being the Sunni. This division goes way back,
but I be darned if I know the details.
What I know of Islam could fit on a postage stamp.
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