On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:25:53 -0700 (PDT), "*Anarcissie*"
> I have a bilingual Koran which has what I think is
> mainstream interpretive material. It states that this
> verse means that if one has to fight with unbelievers
> one must fight with all possible vigor, but that once
> they are defeated and have been captured, they are to
> be ransomed (if of high rank, as was the custom in the
> period) or set free, instead of slaughtered as has
> been the custom in many times and places. But so
> what?
So all Muslims must fight until all unbelievers are
subjugated.
That is what.
And they do. And will. Islam presents the world with
the same problems that Nazism did.
Because of the propensity of the Nazi party to win
elections, we made a big exception in democracy, that
Nazis, or parties suspiciously resembling Nazis, could
not organize, campaign, or run for election in Europe,
and this rule has been recently applied against a party
that won a plurality.
In the end, we are going to have to make a similar
exception in religious freedom. Religious freedom can
only be extended to religions that have no immediate
plans or prospects for ending it by violent means.
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We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because
of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.
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James A. Donald
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