From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 22 Nov 2002 - 04:36:01 GMT
> No, you should post his true identity, Joe. And then when you quote
> him, you should have the integrity to reveal that you don't have the
> slightest idea who "ibn Warraq" really is, so trotting him out as a
> Muslim spokesperson is intrinsically dishonest.
>
No, I don't know who he is, because if I did, so would the Radical
Muslim faithful, and he would be fatwa'ed and in danger of
assassination just like Salman Rushdie. But Free Inquiry Magazine
(which boasts the greatest percentage of Nobel prozewinners among its
readership of any philosophical magazine) has published his articles
and is associated with his website (the Institute for the Secularization of
Islamic Society), his booke are published by their Prometheus Press
(the leading freethinking and rationalist press on the globe) and your
very own Guardian had no problems publiishing the essay of his that I
posted onlist, and which occasioned your riposte. You engage in a
naked and fallacious ad hominem; unable to counter his article on its
merits, you resort to attacking the person. That is the very DEFINITION
of dishonesty.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of joedees@bellsouth.net Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002
> 11:22 PM To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk; fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE:
> Islam and Europe
>
> > Whoops! There goes Joe again, quoting from his "Ibn Warraq" source!
> >
> Should I post his conversation with Salman Rushdie?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On
> > Behalf Of joedees@bellsouth.net Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002
> > 7:39 PM To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Islam and Europe
> >
> > Honest Intellectuals must Shed Spiritual Turbans
> > By Ibn Warraq
> > The Guardian | November 4, 2002
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