wtorek, 15 lutego 2011 13:23. carbon entity 'cv' <c...@g...com>
contaminated pl.sci.psychologia with the following letter:

> Tolerance In Islam
>
> TOLERANCE IN ISLAM In Spain under the Umayyads and in Baghdad under
> the Abbasid Khalifas, Christians and Jews, equally with Muslims, were
> admitted to the Schools and universities - not only that, but were
> boarded and lodged in hostels at the cost of the state. When the Moors
> were driven out of Spain, the Christian conquerors held a terrific
> persecution of the Jews. Those who were fortunate enough to escape
> fled, some of them to Morocco and many hundreds to the Turkish empire,
> where their descendants still live in separate communities, and still
> speak among themselves an antiquated form of Spanish. The Muslim
> empire was a refuge for all those who fled from persecution by the
> Inquisition. The Western Christians, till the arrival of the
> Encyclopaedists in the eighteenth century, did not know and did not
> care to know, what the Muslim believed, nor did the Western Christian
> seek to know the views of Eastern Christians with regard to them. The
> Christian Church was already split in two, and in the end, it came to
> such a pass that the Eastern Christians, as Gibbon shows, preferred
> Muslim rule, which allowed them to practice their own form of religion
> and adhere to their peculiar dogmas, to the rule of fellow Christians
> who would have made them Roman Catholics or wiped them out. For the
> Muslims, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are but three forms of one
> religion, which, in its original purity, was the religion of Abraham:
> Al-Islam, that perfect Self-Surrender to the Will of God, which is the
> basis of Theocracy. The Jews, in their religion, after Moses, limited
> God's mercy to their chosen nation and thought of His kingdom as the
> dominion of their race. Even Christ himself, as several of his sayings
> show, declared that he was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of
> Israel and seemed to regard his mission as to the Hebrews only; and it
> was only after a special vision vouchsafed to St. Peter that his
> followers in after days considered themselves authorized to preach the
> Gospel to the Gentiles. The Christians limited God’s mercy to those
> who believed certain dogmas. Every one who failed to hold the dogmas
> was an outcast or a miscreant, to be persecuted for his or her soul’s
> good. In Islam only is manifest the real nature of the Kingdom of God.
> The two verses (2:255-256) of the Qur’an are supplementary. Where
> there is that realization of the majesty and dominion of Allah (SWT),
> there is no compulsion in religion. Men choose their path - allegiance
> or opposition - and it is sufficient punishment for those who oppose
> that they draw further and further away from the light of truth. In
> Egypt the Copts were on terms of closest friendship with the Muslims
> in the first centuries of the Muslim conquest, and they are on terms
> at closest friendship with the Muslims at the present day. In Syria
> the various Christian communities lived on terms of closest friendship
> with the Muslims in the first centuries of the Muslim conquest, and
> they are on terms of closest friendship with the Muslims at the
> present day, openly preferring Muslim domination to a foreign yoke....
> From the expulsion of the Moriscos dates the degradation and decline
> of Spain. San Fernando was really wiser and more patriotic in his
> tolerance to conquered Seville, Murcia and Toledo than was the later
> king who, under the guise of Holy warfare, captured Grenada and let
> the Inquisition work its will upon the Muslims and the Jews. And the
> modern Balkan States and Greece are born under a curse. It may even
> prove that the degradation and decline of European civilization will
> be dated from the day when so-called civilized statesmen agreed to the
> inhuman policy of Czarist Russia and gave their sanction to the crude
> fanaticism of the Russian Church. There is no doubt but that, in the
> eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of
> culture in a people. Let no Muslim, when looking on the ruin of the
> Muslim realm which was compassed through the agency of those very
> peoples whom the Muslims had tolerated and protected through the
> centuries when Western Europe thought it a religious duty to
> exterminate or forcibly convert all peoples of another faith than
> theirs - let no Muslim, seeing this, imagine that toleration is a
> weakness in Islam. It is the greatest strength of Islam because it is
> the attitude of truth.

So why didn't you help Heathens who were equally persecuted as Jews and
Cathars in the Medieval Europe? Because your al-Quran said Heathens are
al-Harbi? Europe is returning to the ancient religion of Heathenism now and
we must be wary of someone like you who may constitute an obstacle or even a
threat for the reconstruction of our ancient mystery cults and godheads.

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tois egregorosin hena kai koinon kosmon einai
ton de koimomenon hekaston eis idion apostrephesthai