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By: johnpi

johnpi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:32:38 +0000

I think I understood your response to Aziz, but the part that was intended for me is incoherent.

By: johnpi

johnpi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:31:30 +0000

You have made sweeping generalizations and condemnations of an entire group of people, while ignoring at the same time that the majority of the people you self-identify with are engaged in or committed to the same behavior.

My description is accurate, not ad hominen.

By: shams

shams — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:21:12 +0000

Now who is ad-homming?
Isnt rather hypocritical of you Johnpi?

By: shams

shams — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:19:04 +0000

Umm….forgive me, but hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have died so far in that little democracy ~~promotion~~ proselytization adventure.
And Johnpi, I specifically addressed the individual nature of Big White Christian Bwanas particular geo-located meddles.
I am not generalizing.

By: aziz

aziz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:09:58 +0000

But that is not what happened in Iraq, is it?

from what I’ve seen, yes it has.

By: johnpi

johnpi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:03:11 +0000

Yes both. Commonly they go hand-in-hand.

By: johnpi

johnpi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:02:08 +0000

Conflating Iraq with the entirety of the Middle East/North Africa doesn’t get you off the hook for your insulting conception of the peoples of that region.

By: shams

shams — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:50:09 +0000

lol
make up your mind….am I an arrogant bigot AND a hypocrite?
is that even possible?

By: shams

shams — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:49:07 +0000

I don’t.

“Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you—indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.”

Yours is better for you, mine is better for me.
wahdat al-wujud
wahdat al-shuhud

bi la kayfah

By: johnpi

johnpi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:40:44 +0000

So what? As do most Muslims. You’re a hypocrite.