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Unconvinced
Reader comment on item: [The RAND Corporation and] Fixing Islam

Submitted by Roger Wilkinson (Australia), Apr 15, 2004 at 07:55

I am unconvinced about your discussion that there are different groups of Moslems; that is, I am unconvinced after much reading that the problem is other than I believe that the tenets of Islam are from the top down and bottom up untrue. Any person who claims to be a Moslem makes statements... I believe to be untrue, so that the problem is seen to be rather fundamental. While militant Islam, or as you so eloquently call them, 'Islamicists', may well be the presenting problem, that the solution is 'moderate' Islam is dubious...

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The Devilish Plans [240 words]Shahid Saeed KhanJul 16, 2007 03:53
↔ islam [26 words]dmenAug 1, 2007 07:16
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Modernism, Secularism and Naivete [342 words]Kevin James BywaterJul 28, 2004 23:33
Keep Turkey out of the EU! [765 words]Michael d.H. (GER)Jul 1, 2004 08:24
↔ Keeping Turkey out of the EU [85 words]JojoNov 28, 2006 08:53
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Nick Berg and Fixing Islam [45 words]Jim FredJun 7, 2004 01:34
Can the Muslims be Friends with the Jews and Christians? [110 words]Frank WilliamsonApr 24, 2004 07:06
Fixing Islam -- You can't get there from here [434 words]Chris ChrismanApr 21, 2004 10:57
↔ Its a Fairy Tale [94 words]Shahid Saeed KhanJul 16, 2007 04:26
Thank you, but... [239 words]Larry R BeardApr 20, 2004 15:35
Turkey & Secularists [210 words]G SinghApr 18, 2004 04:21
⇒ Unconvinced [93 words]Roger WilkinsonApr 15, 2004 07:55
Beginning of the end of ideology [169 words]Sean DoyleApr 15, 2004 06:58
How to fix Islam [51 words]Ricky D. CalhounApr 14, 2004 16:12
Islam punishes Western stupidity for 14 centuries. Now is USA. [185 words]Stan SzczepkowskiApr 13, 2004 15:08
interesting approach but... [234 words]the criterionApr 12, 2004 19:07
Errors in Dan Pipe's article [532 words]silasApr 10, 2004 07:22
Secular Arab and Muslim Mind as the only way out of global terrorism [120 words]Mona AbousennaApr 10, 2004 07:19
French approach to secularists [233 words]John HadjiskyApr 8, 2004 16:07
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Very Interesting [182 words]AvrahamApr 7, 2004 23:35
End of Islam [153 words]DaveApr 7, 2004 20:00
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Religion building or demolition? [143 words]Rick FlandersApr 6, 2004 10:58
What about Arab Nationalism? [160 words]Jonathan PfefferApr 6, 2004 10:03

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