Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00598)

Cass,

No, it's only my view of Theosophy.  Can I? 

Carlos. 

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Data:Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:27:00 -0800 (PST)

Assunto:Re: Theos-World No Clash of Civilizations

> Did I miss the election? When were you authorised to be the voice of Theosophy?
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> Israeli writer Amos Oz has been writing for a number of years that the real Middle East conflict is not between Arabs/Muslim and Jews/Israel. The real conflict it is between the intolerant radicals (Arabs and Jews united in that quest for bloodshed), and open-minded, peace-loving people (Arabs and Jews also united in the quest for peace). 
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> Theosophy can only agree with that.
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> Assunto:Theos- World No Clash of Civilizations
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> > Maybe this interview will be interesting for some:
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> > Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan: There is No Clash of 
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> > Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages 
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> > Following are excerpts from an interview with Arab-American 
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> > psychiatrist Wafa Sultan. The interview was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on 
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> > Wafa Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a 
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> > clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash 
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> > between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a 
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> > mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that 
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> > belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and 
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> > backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between 
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> > barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and 
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> > oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between 
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> > human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on 
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> > other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, 
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> > and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not 
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> > a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.
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> > Host: I understand from your words that what is happening today is a 
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> > clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and 
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> > ignorance of the Muslims?
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> > Wafa Sultan: Yes, that is what I mean.
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> > Host: Who came up with the concept of a clash of civilizations? Was 
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> > it not Samuel Huntington? It was not Bin Laden. I would like to 
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> > discuss this issue, if you don't mind...
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> > Wafa Sultan: The Muslims are the ones who began using this 
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> > expression. The Muslims are the ones who began the clash of 
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> > civilizations. The Prophet of Islam said: "I was ordered to fight the 
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> > people until they believe in Allah and His Messenger." When the 
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> > Muslims divided the people into Muslims and non-Muslims, and called 
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> > to fight the others until they believe in what they themselves 
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> > believe, they started this clash, and began this war. In order to 
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> > stop this war, they must reexamine their Islamic books and curricula, 
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> > which are full of calls for takfir and fighting the infidels.
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> > My colleague has said that he never offends other people's beliefs. 
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> > What civilization on the face of this earth allows him to call other 
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> > people by names that they did not choose for themselves? Once, he 
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> > calls them Ahl Al-Dhimma, another time he calls them the "People of 
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> > the Book," and yet another time he compares them to apes and pigs, or 
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> > he calls the Christians "those who incur Allah's wrath." Who told you 
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> > that they are "People of the Book"? They are not the People of the 
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> > Book, they are people of many books. All the useful scientific books 
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> > that you have today are theirs, the fruit of their free and creative 
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> > thinking. What gives you the right to call them "those who incur 
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> > Allah's wrath," or "those who have gone astray," and then come here 
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> > and say that your religion commands you to refrain from offending the 
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> > beliefs of others?
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> > I am not a Christian, a Muslim, or a Jew. I am a secular human being. 
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> > I do not believe in the supernatural, but I respect others' right to 
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> > Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli: Are you a heretic?
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> > Wafa Sultan: You can say whatever you like. I am a secular human 
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> > being who does not believe in the supernatural. ..
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> > Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli: If you are a heretic, there is no point in 
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> > rebuking you, since you have blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet, 
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> > Wafa Sultan: These are personal matters that do not concern you.
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> > Wafa Sultan: Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't 
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> > throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other 
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> > people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the 
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> > Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let 
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> > people have their beliefs.
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> > Wafa Sultan: The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), 
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> > and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with 
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> > their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity 
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> > owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th 
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> > centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people, scattered 
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> > throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and 
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> > knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German 
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> > restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have 
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> > not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims have 
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> > turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single 
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> > Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. 
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> > Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, 
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> > killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield 
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> > any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for 
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> > humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.
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