From: rroy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Raja R Roy)
Subject: Re: SALMAN RUSHDIE
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:08:10 GMT



In article <1992Sep11.005525.7823@twg.com> khan@twg.com (Sharaz Khan) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.201425.6227@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rroy@magnus.acs.o
hio-state.edu (Raja R Roy) writes:
>>
>>
>Did I say "highly" or "critically" acclaimed?  I keep hearing about
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>his people mentioning his acclaim, but I find no sources of any books
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>that have stirred such a hue and cry or controversy.
>

       Read " Midnight's children ".
>
>
>>>Secondly, his book is written in a time prior to the Gulf 
>>>war around the time when the Soviet Union is at its breaking
>>>point.  At the same time, the language that used to be thought
>>>to the CIA (Russian) changes its curriculum to Arabic.  
>>
>>     Makes no sense. What do you want to convey?
>
>This is my opinion and opinions do not require sources.  They are
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>mearly based on feelings.
>

  Do you need some course in english or what?
 I was not asking for source. Your opinion was not clear. Looked like
 some incoherent rambling.
>Islam is the only faith that the West has always feared.  Europe almost
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>saw the fall of Rome at the hands of Muslims.  Why you ask?  Islam offers
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>comprehensive solutions to many social and human problems that no other
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>faith can combine with real and practical life (business, science, economics,
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>etc.) whereas the concept in other faiths is a separation of all of these
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>faculties.  When the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) took Mecca, it was not by the
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>sword, but by the fact that he had conveyed such a system that attacked
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>at the roots of the currently running system.  He simply walked in to 
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>Mecca.  The system that exists in the West today was similar in most 
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>aspects than that of Mecca 1400  years ago.  Besides, my being "paranoid"
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>about the West is nothing new.

        Boy, you are still dwelling in past. Look at the present and see
 what you have got? Noone else is responsible for the sorry state you
 are in. If you think Islam is a magic cure for everything , then you are
 mistaken. Muslims will fight each other if left alone. See, what is 
 happening in sindh, in Iraq.   

>  I have come to this conclusion after 
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>much such as:
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>- Double-standard in the case of Kuwait when Iraq invaded it vs that of 
>  the occupation of Pelestine by the Zionists.
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>- Double-standard when all resolutions passed in the UN are implemented 
>  in Kuwait but not in Pelestine.
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>- Double-standard when "protecting" the Shites in Iraq, whereas neglecting
>  Bosnia's genocide as a "regional guerella warfare".



     Why should west take care of all your problems? 


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>- Double-standard in asking Pakistan to sign the nuclear non-proliferation 
>  treaty whereas India is devoid from this right.
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>- Double-standars in helping the Afghans to fight against the former US
>  "evil" (communism), and not doing the same for Bosnians.
>
>You also seem to be pointing to the fact that the Muslims are weak 
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>militarily.  I may agree with you on this one, but don't look at Islam
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>as a military power only.  Today the fastest growing "religion" in the 
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>world and the US is Islam.

      Tell me what it means to say that Islam is fastest growing religion
 in America. What other religions are growing ? Islam is the only one 
 going around converting people ? If you start with zero , ofcourse
 you will always grow. Give me some figures ? How many muslims are here
 today, how many were few years back and extrapolate to estimate some date
 when muslims will become a majority here? Probably, you have to wait
 till eternity for that. What is the big deal in converting some poor
 people, who want to use Islam to pay their bills ? Can you give some
 figure on the economic background of converted people. 
     I know  a muslim here, who will go to mosque to get some free food
 and clothes and stuff, next day he will go to church and get stuff like
 that , and on top of that he will get social security in the end of month.
 Americans are very materialistic and don't think that since they became
 muslim, they will fight a crusade for you. 

>  In the US, it will exceed Catholics and 
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>Jewish faiths.  Once a person becomes Muslim, it is obligatory for one
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>to refuse most that operates in the current system of Government.  Can
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>you tell me how this will affect voting in future?  
>
>

          Give some date for this phenomena. When will this happen? 
 50 years from now, 100 years , 1000 years ? 
          

>
>
>>    I don't see why Islam should be so important for west. Any reasons.
>> West has everything, money and power. Once oil is gone ( in 50 years ),
>> where will Islamic states be? 
>
>
>Maybe you need to understand Islam a bit more.  Maybe you can write
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>to me and I can show you more about this beautiful faith.  Or maybe
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>you just don't care.

    Don't bother. Islam is no stranger to me. If we keep discussing
 Islam the way it is done on SCP and SCI, someday I will know more than
 an average mullah. -:)  
>

  Raja

>Sharaaz Khan
>
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