Jon Clark wrote:
>In the bigger picture, you may be right. So far it is mainly
>extremist groups of
>Muslims who advocate holy war against the western war. If this
>should become the
>policy of most Muslim countries then the world will be in for a
>torrid time. I grew
>up in a country with a substantial Muslim minority and have known Christians
>threatened and shot, for being missionaries or converts. I have no
>illusions about
>Islam and regard it as being anti-Christ in a most profound sense.
I have just begun reading The Middle East: A History of the Last 200
Years, by Bernard Lewis, the grand old man of American Middle Eastern
studies (very well written, with plenty of telling vingettes, the
sort of thing that makes reading history interesting to me). His
account of the origins of Islam makes it clear that it was conceived
as an explicit, emphatic rejection of Christ (and that the Dome of
the Rock was the architectural expression of that rejection.)
Preston G.
-- Preston Garrison Instructor UTHSCSA Biochem. Dept. MSC 7760 Insert the usual disclaimers here. 7703 Floyd Curl Dr. San Antonio, TX 78229-3900 garrisonp@uthscsa.edu 210-567-3702 http://biochem.uthscsa.edu/~barnes
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