To Dhimmi no more: You have exposed me. Plato=Pyrrhos

Submitted by Plato (India), Mar 14, 2007 at 08:29

Why is it strange my wanting to quote you? You have demonstrated your deep knowledge of Arabic and with that exposed many a claim by Muslims on this blog. Which is exactly what I am also trying to do. I would like to use your letter by letter and word by word analysis of Arabic when I post elsewhere or in arguments with Muslims. If this is unacceptable I will desist.

I do not doubt the greatness of Greek and Western learning.

...The gods are later than this world's production.
Who knows, then, whence it first came into being?

He, the first origin of this creation,
whether he formed it all or did not form it,
Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven,
he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows it not.

If the Greeks had scepticism so did the East. Here are the last stanzas from the song of creation in the Rig Veda, perhaps the oldest scripture known to man. For a scripture what you get is a healthy dose of scepticism.

Where do you see my lack of scepticism? In my scepticism that Muslims (almost bar none) are a monolitihic unit out to devour the rest of the world. In my scepticism that some ideologies, particularly the religion of Islam, cannot be reformed.

Yes dhimmi no more I have been a 'makkar', and you have rooted me out. My nom de plume really is Pyrrhos.

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