Re: CITR and the Koran

That's exactly their explanation for the reason it was chosen. Due to the
recent happenings "over there", they figured it would be good to gain a
better understanding on the religion that is supposedly the flame that is
the passion that drives them to do this; some of them say they do it for
religious purposes, and, for the most part, true devout followers of the
Koran are being cast under an ugly light. I can't really say that I appose
or support this...I think that, like someone said earlier, it's all quite
silly to be made such a big deal over.

And who said that if they had to read the Christian Bible it wouldn't be a
big deal? I think that if they did, there wouldn't have been just a handful
of people suing the university over this... =)

-adam.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: CITR and the Koran

>
> I presume the idea is to broaden understanding in the aftermath
> of last September & Middle Eastern events generally. But I wonder
> really how much relevance a grasp of the Koran has to that enterprise.
> It's like suggesting that a mastery of the King James Bible or
> of Humanae Vita will illuminate the conflict in the North of Ireland.
> Only very, very marginally.
>
> Scriptures can be used - and are, all the time - in diametrically
> opposed ways to support almost any political stance. 'Islam',
> nowadays, is essentially a tribal badge - just like 'The West'.
> The tribes have grown to existence along many different routes
> - economic, historic, & the rest. The religion of the tribe (whether
> Islam or Humanist Capitalism) is now little more than a handy
> combustible to fuel the fire.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
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