RE: CITR and the Koran

that was me who said it wouldn't have been as big a deal if the Bible was the
text in question-what i was implying, however, was not that groups like the
ACLU, etc, would not get involved, because they most certainly would, but that
popular sentiment, the thoughts on the issue by the average joe, would be much
less ferocious and pervasive, and indeed even existent. the bible, being
inherently more familiar and 'accepted,' would provoke less of a response than
an unfamiliar and distinctive Koran, simply because more noteworthy things
lead us to perform a double-take. (the Koran, of course, has largely been
dragged into this due to our frenzy with all things 9/11-in any other year,
this would have gone largely unnoticed. my read on the situation-extremely
savvy newspaper personnel picking up on a story guaranteed to turn heads, and
us (society) following in tow-some with meritorious debates, most with
ignorant rhetoric).

>===== Original Message From "adam lescalleet" <adam@sebcoe.org> =====
>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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