The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton"
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pancho
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- Sunday, January 23 2011, 15:05:35 (UTC) from *** - *** -  Windows XP -   SafariWebsite: Website title: |
...a biography by Edward Rice of the 19th Century British linguist, explorer, soldier...who searched for the source of the Nile, for one thing and who converted to Islam for the Haj to Mecca....fascinating fellow, good and bad but always interesting and thought-provoking...spoke many languages among them Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Italian, French, Greek plus many dialects...was probably a secret agent and champion of British imperial designs.... In this biography I came across the following.... "What is there, I would ask, in the Moslem Pilgrimage so offensive to Christians....what makes it a subject of "inward ridicule'? Do they [the Muslims] not also venerate Abraham, the Father of the Faithful? Did not [John] Locke and even greater names, hold Mohammedans to be heterodox Christians, in fact Arians who till the end of the fourth century represented the mass of North European Christianity? The fact is...Al Islam, in its capital tenets, approaches much nearer to the faith of Jesus than do Pauline and Athenasian modifications which, in this our day, have divided the Indo-European mind into Catholic and Roman, Greek and Russian, Lutheran and Anglican....The Moslem may be more tolerant, more enlightened, more charitable, than many societies of self-styled Christians." ...surely he is referring in the last sentence to our idiots. --------------------- |
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