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You are best place to guess what Akin's views are - I bow to your greater knowledge of your fellow right-wing Christian anti-abortionist's views.

I suggest that you try and stick to the thread's topic in future and try and stop the trolling.

Cheers,

Shafique

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^Great info Nucleus - thanks for that. eh - you're digging yourself into a hole. RC was talking about the sacking of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade, and the wholesale looting of it by the crusaders, who took a lot of the loot back to Venice. And the reason given in history books for the Crusad...

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By the 12th century, however, scholastic thought was beginning to develop, leading to the rise of universities throughout Europe.[35] These universities gathered what little Greek thought had been preserved over the centuries, including Boethius' commentaries on Aristotle. They also served as place...

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Frequentflier wrote: Islam is nothing but a rehash of Judaism and Christianity, with a few addendums.

Not how I'd put it - but a valid perspective to take.

A Ferrari is just a rehash of a Model T Ford after all.

Cheers,
Shafique

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The way I see it though is that we have done it back to front, the Greeks were the Ferrari, and we have landed ourselves in the Model T Ford. Well, looking at some of the Mullahs of today and the Christian extremists eh likes to follow - coupled with some extremely thick, rosy spectacles to look ba...

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RC rightly referred to the 4th Crusade and sacking of Constantinople, and referred to this as the 'Great Loot'. He is right - the 'great loot' did take place in the 4th crusade and was indeed by a mixture of European countrymen (he puts it rather more eloquently). He was responding to your statement...

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Your biggest argument is one RC never made nor I have with him - that the crusaders were double-crossed by the Byzantine state. This is hardly the biggest point I was making - but it was a point of fact. But let's see the point of it being a point you never made: think you're confusing the Fourth C...

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Fail. Alex V was under no obligation to honour a deal the previous guy (whom he had killed) made with mercenaries before he became emperor. :roll: ergo, no Double Cross. So, coming back to your point of the 'fall of Constantinople' and Greek texts being translated after this point (which is what RC ...

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'himself' is who exactly? A blogger friend of yours who shares your anti-Muslim view of history? As for the Crusaders and your view that they were double crossed - the facts speak for themselves. Alex IV hires them to depose Alex III, gets himself killed and then the Crusaders decide to invade and m...

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Oh dear, eh and statistics - in support of an anti-Muslim view of the world. It is bound to end in tears. Firstly, God only made Haj an obligation on those who can physically make the pilgrimage - and can afford to do so without making any debt. It has been this way from the outset. So from outset, ...

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Yes, I am being serious. After Alexis V kills Alexis IV and takes the throne, there is no reason why he should honour the deal Alexis IV made with mercenaries before he became emperor. No double cross. Just spin on your part. The deal with the mercenaries was before he was emperor - and against the ...

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I happen to be against euthanasia myself - as Islam teaches that suicide is a sin. The logic is that if suicide is a sin - and that is a case where a person is in so much anguish or pain that they take their life, then there is no circumstance where another person helping a person end their life can...

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The criteria are simple: 1. Able bodied, 2. Can afford to go without debt. Why are you excluding the 'can afford to go' bit? That automatically excludes a large proportion of the population (and has done from the start of Islam). God says Islam is not a religion that seeks to make harsh conditions o...

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You just need to think about it some more - and consider my final points below. Anyway, the fifth pillar of Islam is one that a Muslim needs to perform only once in their lifetime +if they can+. It is the last pillar and the one with the lowest frequency. The first is the Shahada: testifying that Go...

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You think abortion is murder - that's your view. I don't try and twist your belief. I really don't see why you continue to post here and blatantly exude your anti-Muslim biases and hate. My post is clear and so is my logic - I assume you actually read what I wrote and not just what you quoted. Your ...

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Thank you Sir for the excelent translation from my Runglish to the Queen's English. I could not say better. You're welcome. eh clearly understood you just as well, he was just playing his usual game of avoiding the main question/points. I guess there is a similar book in the Bible Belt, where such ...

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'himself' is who exactly? A blogger friend of yours who shares your anti-Muslim view of history? Are you 'himless' eh? Interesting to read the Wiki entry for William of Moerbeke under Transmission of the Classics: Though William's contribution to the 'recovery' of Aristotle, in the 13th century, wa...

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Actually I made only one mistake about Genoa. eh - your reading skills are letting you down - again. RC said that he made an error by mentioning Genoa - but the rest of his post about looting/4th crusade was as he intended. He was responding, initially, to YOUR claim that works were translated 'aft...

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So, Dunn does say the early Christians considered Jesus the Messiah of the Jews - care to elaborate on your earlier comments on how 'modern scholarship' does not view this to be the case? Dunn shows the evidence in the NT does not back up this view. Jesus was not worshipped as a God by the earliest ...

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You think abortion is murder - that's your view. I don't try and twist your belief. Sorry, but I don't recall basing any alleged belief of mine on religion. I didn't mention your religion when I stated your belief about abortion being murder. Your other views and logic stem from your belief that ab...

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Comprehension skills letting you down big time eh.

I suggest you just re-read my last post and RC's above. Try answering the questions actually posed for a change.

(are you himless?)

Cheers,

Shafique

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That Dunn's conclusion is clear was what I stated in the OP. You're the one that appeared to be in denial of what Dunn concludes (despite not reading his book), and even now are trying to spin what he concluded. The earliest Christians did not worship Jesus as a God. This is exactly what I have alwa...

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My body, my choice in regards of abortion does not equate to 'my choice to end my life' - I see no paradox. I see a paradox for those that believe abortion is murder and consider pro-choice to be pro-murder - but that is not the case for all those who are pro-choice. (Oh, and there are many who are ...

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^The Haj is over a specific number of days each year, so can't be extended multiple times a year. It follows the lunar calendar - so is like Ramadhan. The end of Haj is Eid ul Adhia, the end of Ramadhan is Eid ul Fitr. That said, there is, the Umrah - which is the lesser pilgrimage and that can be d...

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Is passive euthanasia considered a sin in Islam? No, a DNR order is ok under Islam to the best of my knowledge - and I have known a few cases where 'no heroic measures' were taken and the person allowed to die, and the death was managed with pain meds. Similarly a few cases where life support was s...

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It's humane to end the suffering of an animal, but not the pointless suffering of a human. How illogical. It may be illogical to you, but in Islam (and most legal systems around the world) make a distinction between humans and animals. So under Islam it's allright to let somebody suffering from a h...

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Why do you assume I don't eat what I hunt? If you do a quick search, you'll find that it is not haram after all.

I'm amused at how many people keep cropping up who are more interested in my views and actions rather than the topic at hand.

Cheers,
Shafique

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You disputed the fact that there was no paradox for those who don't believe abortion is murder - your quote above was from my response to that belief of yours. I'm saying that there is only a paradox IF you believe abortion is murder, are pro-choice and anti-euthanasia. If you don't believe abortion...

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Ronald Reagan's adopted son is spinning a story about how free webmail is helping the liberal movement in the USA. :roll: (And he's promoting this on Fox News :D :D ) It sounds like a far-fetched conspiracy theory to me, or it could just be a cynical ploy to promote his paid-for email service... wha...

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but I'm sure an exception could be made if the population of Muslims is so large and they want to perform the 5th pillar. Well, should it get to that stage, the 'powers that be' can debate the issue (there's pretty little chance of them agreeing though..) . For now we've gone from about 20,000 a ye...

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