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  1. Newsgroups: alt.atheism
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au!darice
  3. From: darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice)
  4. Subject: Re: Monitored by islam (repost)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec21.042848.9353@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
  6. Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
  7. Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
  8. References: <1992Dec9.080120.28144@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <jon.taylor.58.723926261@uuserv.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec13.111626.1@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <BzEtrA.F2K@news.chalmers.se>
  9. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:28:48 GMT
  10. Lines: 34
  11.  
  12. In <BzEtrA.F2K@news.chalmers.se> d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) writes:
  13.  
  14. >In article <1992Dec13.111626.1@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> phs179b@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Dien Rice) writes:
  15. >>Muslims AS A WHOLE
  16. >>are slandered by people who, it is usually found, know practically nothing
  17. >>about Islam.
  18.  
  19. >>(When I say most non-Muslims do not fully understand about Islam, I speak from
  20. >>my personal experience in dealing with people.
  21.  
  22. >  Exactly how would you define 'understandning Islam'?
  23.  
  24. What I meant in the original posting by many people "not understanding 
  25. Islam" (or whatever) is *thinking* you know something factual about
  26. Islam when that "fact" turns out to be a popular misconception, or at
  27. best, a half-truth.
  28.  
  29. Of course, I also realize that many non-Muslims also have a very good
  30. understanding of what Islam teaches, etc.  However, it was not these
  31. people I was discussing.
  32.  
  33.  Fred Rice
  34.  darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au   
  35.  
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  37.     One can either take the time
  38.     to learn about the Islamic faith,
  39.     or one can defer to the wisdom of
  40.     broadcast television and hollywood
  41.     and fail to understand it, completely.
  42.  
  43.                      Gerard Vignes
  44.     [quoted with permission]
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