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Ok, it looks like some Hamas officials believe in the Holocaust - the ones who praise Hitler, that is. Other than that, Hamas officials have repeatedly and unequivocally publicly denied the historical reality of the Holocaust. A spokesman for the Palestinian militant movement Hamas has criticised a ...

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A recent condemnation letter by the Buddhist community against "Islamophobia" prompted by violence between two ethnic communities in Myanmar that started with the rape and murder of two Buddhist women has been posted: http://buddhistletteronislamophobia.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/an-open-let...

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So, nothing surprising: Sunni Muslim terrorists committed “about 70 percent” of the 12,533 terrorist murders in the world last year, according to a report by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The information comes from the 2011 NCTC Report on Terrorism, which is based on information avail...

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So much for freedom of religion: The Palestinian Authority arrested six men across the West Bank this week for publicly breaking the fast of Ramadan, news watchdog Palestinian Media Watch reported Wednesday. The official Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah reported earlier this week that five Pale...

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Yes there is some persecution of Christians and minorities in some Muslim lands - but this is not the norm. I think there is a point to be made in the article but somehow I don't think the author in the OP will understand how to apply it uniformly. (btw, I'll hazard a guess that if the Israeli cour...

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I didn't see any mention of the rape and murder of two Buddhist women in Myanmar and anti-Buddhist discrimination in other nations in the article.

Right, the condemnation was written by Buddhists, never mind.

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Worth repeating: There is no equivalent to a liberal counterpart to Haaretz, SPLC, etc., etc in the Muslim world. The only reason we know an Ohio based imam recently appeared on an Arabic satellite television channel calling for the blood of Jews is because of MEMRI. Frankly, MEMRI is disliked becau...

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shafique wrote:Thanks for sharing your fantasies about my education.

People in the 21st century see enslaving females and turning them into concubines as s.exist/misogynist.

I don't suppose you have a response to this fact.

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None of God's revelations in the Quran consitute misogyny. Righto - we get that you rely on circular reasoning. For people inhabiting the 21st century, making women concubines is s.exist/misogynistic. None of God's revelations in the Quran consitute misogyny. That's a matter of opinion. Wife beatin...

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Thanks for your view, but I have not quoted bloggers or Ahmadi missionary websites.

I am simply quoting the Koran where it permits men to enslave women and use them as concubines.

I am asking how the passage is not s.exist/misogynistic when people with 21st mindsets clearly see it as such.

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Lao Tse wasn't a prophet (as a corollary, shafique has never read 'his' writings) The afterlife was never a teaching of Moses/Abraham as recorded in various Jewish writings The "Hellenization" of Christianity theory is hardly well received and has been heavily criticized for the past fort...

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Actually, studying Greek thinkers was suppressed in the Islamic world and individuals could (usually) only study Greek thinkers in private. The translation and transmission of Greek in the middle east was done before as much as during the Islamic period by non-Muslim translators. These works often w...

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Do you have any ref. where this very dubious inf. came from? What exactly are you asking? That the transmission of Greek->Arabic often went Greek->Aramaic->Arabic? I thought this was common knowledge. You can always check the internet. Hunayn ibn Ishaq is one name that quickly comes up as someone w...

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The big-thing-point is that these translations were taking place under Islamic rule and for benefit of the Muslim scholars The translations to Aramaic were taking place before and after the Arab invasions of the region. The heavy lifting of the translations had been done by Christians who translate...

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I can't help if you don't know that numerous Greek works were translated to Aramaic under the Persian empire. Your beliefs based on ignorance is your problem.

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Hunayn Ishaq was one individual. There were other translators before him who translated Greek studies to Aramaic under the Persian empire. in the highlighted portion of Hamman's summary in my post above, as well as the Wiki entry which all talk about how Arabic works in Spain were imported to the re...

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Thanks for your views - I'll stick with the undisputed reality that translation errors from Arabic existed and Europeans required direct Greek to Latin translations for the most pristine translations of Greek studies: In the 13th century a second phase of the translation movement began and the atten...

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Below I extract some parts from Vermes article (and the link is given at the end), but it is interesting to read through the debate on Quodlibeta as well - there the objections/arguments from Trinitarian Christians are dealt with quite comprehensively by the poster 'sankari' : And here's sankari's ...

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I'll just file that away with your other bizare historical arguments such as your argument that the Crusades were NOT holy wars. I've shown the crusades were as much holy wars as the 9/11 martyrdom attacks. I understand you're not very 'bright', so I'll fill you in: I'm using basic logic where I sh...

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Frequentflier , good point, they could be Brits: http://delhi4cats.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/islam_will_dominate_world.jpg But I'm inclined to believe the pictures in the OP were taken in Paksitan: http://news.daylife.com/photo/0calfpB0BxgTo?__site=daylife&q=quds+day Pakistani Shiite Muslims ...

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I guess hating the great and little Satan allows them to forget how much they hate each other. Enjoy your day of hate, tomorrow will go back to this: Iraq Attacks Kill More Than 90 Across Country 08/17/12 Among the higher casualty numbers disclosed Friday were 21 people killed when a car bomb detona...

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Well, as labarum points out, the Didache actually says the following: This is one of those cases where since the exact phrase "Son of God" is not directly applied to Jesus, it somehow is believed the concept does not exist. Much like denying the concept of the Trinity because the word &quo...

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Thanks for the review. It's interesting you happened to quote a book by Dunn. You, of course, have never read a single sentence Dunn has written so it's quite ironic for you to quote him in ignorance since his views on Christianity are at complete contradiction with your own. I happened to have read...

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There's a level of stupidity in your posts that only you are capable of. Dunn applies a level of exegesis to the New Testament you reject for the Koran or New Testament when it doesn't suit you. In this case, Dunn argues that "worship" in Greek at the time doesn't necessarily mean worship ...

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Actually (key word: worship): Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. (Matthew 2:2) And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they h...

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Actually what Dunn says is that the earliest Christians did NOT worship Jesus as God. (Chapter 1 is on the language of worship Actually, Dunn, as I just explained, does say Jesus was worshiped. He qualifies worship as an act of reverence. So, worship = praise but not the most straightforward meanin...

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Thanks, but I was responding to the proof texting done in the comment you quoted which claimed Jesus was never worshiped in the NT - he was. The NT clearly says he was "worshiped".

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Well, it's a good thing this happened in Pakistan is all I can say. It's well known Americans are 10 fold more likely to justify murder of civilians than the people of Pakistan. Imagine if a girl had desecrated Bibles in Canada, America or Britain? No need to imagine - deadly mobs have formed over l...

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Hamas 'blasts Palestinian official's Auschwitz visit'

Sincere vs insincere condemnation: spot the difference?

Report: Sunni Extremists Committed 70% of Terrorist Murders

Palestinians arrested - one jailed - for eating on Ramadan

Re: Turkeys don't vote for Christmas

Re: Buddhists Denounce Islamophobia

Re: MEMRI - Look Beyond The Headlines

Re: Is the Koran misogynist?

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Re: Earliest Christians: Jewish Christians

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Re: Pakistani Children Sending Their Love To RoW

Re: More Love From Pakistan

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Re: NT Evidence: First Christians Did Not Worship Jesus

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Pakistani girl desecrated Koran - arrested

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