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Subject: [Leica] OT: Koran Desecrations at Gitmo
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Jun 8 18:54:23 2005

Absolutely true. The only problem is that Muslims apparently belief that the
Koran is the word of Allah  in a literal sense, and that to disrespect it is
to disrespect Allah. I may consider this more than a bit goofy, but then so
might be believing in a person who literally rose from the dead, no? When it
comes to religion, anything, it seems, goes. ;-)


On 6/8/05 9:36 PM, "Eric Ladner" <ealadner@comcast.net> wrote:

> BD and Marc--
> I missed BD's original message, but judging by the quotation in Marc's
> message and by Marc's comments, I think I agree with both of you. I'd
> just like to add what my mother always told me: don't let the kids who
> tease you see that you care; that's what they want.
> 
> When it comes right down to it, the Koran and the Bible are paper and
> ink; the flag is red, white, and blue cloth. They are symbols of Islam
> and Christianity and the ideals of the United States, and it is highly
> offensive to all decent people to treat them with disrespect, but they
> are not the beliefs they represent. Those beliefs are not harmed or
> lessened by offensive treatment of the books that promulgate them or
> the flag that represents them. They are far stronger than that.
> 
> I bet that if, when one of these "desecrations" occurs, everyone said,
> "Duh, what a jerk!" and got on with more important things, the
> desecrators would get bored and give up.
> 
> --Eric (and my M3 agrees with me)
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small) ([Leica] OT: Koran Desecrations at Gitmo)
In reply to: Message from ealadner at comcast.net (Eric Ladner) ([Leica] OT: Koran Desecrations at Gitmo)