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| Re: Pio mode /udma help needed [message #71193 is a reply to message #71189] |
Mon, 14 August 2006 05:48   |
Deej [1]
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dterry@keyofd.net> wrote in message
news:C131DB49.356D%dterry@keyofd.net...
> I don't want to start another religious or political thread - I just found
> this ironic, at best:
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> The Pope is under fire from the Islamic community because he quoted a
> Byzantine emperor's ancient writings in a talk rejecting religious
> motivation for violence. The emperor, in obscure writings hundreds of
year
> old, characterized the teachings of Muhammad (Islam's founder) as "evil
and
> inhuman" because if it's command to "spread by the sword the faith". The
> Pope made no such characterization - just quoted the old guy, and it isn't
> even clear if he quoted any of the "offensive" text.
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> As a protest, two Catholic, two Anglican, and one Greek church in the West
> Bank were attacked by Palestinians using guns, firebombs and lighter
fluid -
> charring the churches and riddling them with bullet holes.
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> Umm...reality check: 2+2=4. The Earth still circles the Sun. And
doesn't
> reacting with violence just prove the Emperor's assessment, and then some?
> Yet the press and the Islamic world seem to have missed the irony
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