In message cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-YXUQyXn7rHWv@localhost
"Ian Johnston" wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:28:43 UTC, Graeme Wall
wrote:

: In message cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-C27MKJWQnhWC@localhost
: "Ian Johnston" wrote:
:
: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:35:41 UTC, Graeme Wall
: wrote:
:
: : The people currently doing the killing in Iraq are muslims killing
: : other muslims, a bit like the situation in Northern Ireland.

Or like the resistance shooting collaborators?

: No

How do you think they see themselves, then?


"My version of whatever religion is the only true religion and anyone
professing to be a true whatever who doesn't agree with me is a worthless
heretic who must be eliminated for the greater good"

Other religions don't count as they are by definition not religions at all.
Means you can carry on fighting amongst yourselves to your hearts content.
An extension of gang warfare. Applies to Catholics-Protestants in NI,
Sunnis-Shi'ites in the Arab world, Arabs-Jews in the Middle East. Al
Quaeda's objective is to widen it to Islam-Christianity. The common factor
is that all the various sects involved are rooted in the Old Testament with
its emphasis on intolerance and its championing of a 'chosen people'.

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