Re: Tolerance (was: THE WORLD OF THE JINN)

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 06:49 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Ah, that's unexpectedly charitable, isn't it?
>
> Sad that someone finds it unexpected.
Well, (traditional) Christianity wouldn´t expect Muslims getting to heaven. I
was being ironic about the less charitable views common among those of my own
faith.

> The prophets of Judaism are honored
> in the Koran,
> as is Jesus and his mother, Mary (indeed, she is named more than any other
> person in
> that book), and the desecration of other people's places of worship is
> forbidden.
>
> In Moorish Spain, Jews and Christians enjoyed great freedom and respect
> under their
> Muslim rulers.
Yes, I know. But this isn´t necessarily relevant is it?

> > Anyone know what Shiites and Sunnis believe re: one another in this
> > respect? At
> > least one 17th C Ottoman mufti was of the opinion that the killing of one
> > Shiite is as helpful for your soul as that of eighty Christians ...
>
> I think there'd be howls of protest if we suggested that Christians abided
> by
> the utterance of individual clerics of the 16th century.  IME most Sunni &
> Shiites
> respect one another.
Had I believed that the views of this mufti were normal, I hadn´t asked, had I?

> Do we judge all Protestants as being like Ian Paisley?
No. It´s so easy to find much worse examplars.

> I detest & abominate bigotry. Can't we on Conlang, at least, show a little
> tolerance?
If you find my views intolerant, you are free to try and convince me
otherwise, but then that preferabely off-list.

                                                       Andreas