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IvanKaramozov
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How do you feel about Ayatollah Khomeini’s Fatwa and order of execution aghinst Salman Rushdie?
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BrJimC
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Pointless saber rattling and old news…
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Sister_Amy
Guest
Honestly, I don’t give any weight to anything the Ayatollah Khomeini says. None whatsoever.
And like Jimbo said… it’s kind of old news. At the same time it shows a real lack of confidence in the truth of Islam and unnecessary fear.
And like Jimbo said… it’s kind of old news. At the same time it shows a real lack of confidence in the truth of Islam and unnecessary fear.
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AgnosTheist
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Khomeini → Shia
Sister Amy → Sunni
have sunni’s ever listened to a shia ayatollah?
Sister Amy → Sunni
have sunni’s ever listened to a shia ayatollah?
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Kaninchen
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Rather an unfair question, I would have thought.
Like my own religion, Islam has no one ‘leader’ whose judgment one has to accept. If some ‘not-very-well’ rabbi says something, people who find him intellectually important may agree with him, the rest of us will just think he’s ‘not-very-well’ and be a bit embarrassed. It’s not like the problem a ‘not-very-well’ pope would be!
So, the best you might get, given a little religious solidarity in a hostile environment, might be: “Well, err.”
Like my own religion, Islam has no one ‘leader’ whose judgment one has to accept. If some ‘not-very-well’ rabbi says something, people who find him intellectually important may agree with him, the rest of us will just think he’s ‘not-very-well’ and be a bit embarrassed. It’s not like the problem a ‘not-very-well’ pope would be!
So, the best you might get, given a little religious solidarity in a hostile environment, might be: “Well, err.”
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