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Paranoiac

Reader comment on item: Finding Allah in Unlikely Places
in response to reader comment: All mentions of ALLAH on products is deliberate

Submitted by Abu Nudnik (Canada), Sep 13, 2006 at 15:44

Mr. Chaudry: the extent of your certainty that these products' logos, which resemble the name Allah, are placed there deliberately, is the extent to which you are paranoid. Paranoia is a serious mental illness characterized by an unshakeable conviction; the inablitiy to even entertain the possibility that you could be wrong, is paranoia.

Let me put it into religious terminology: by pretending you can see into the minds of people other than yourself you are arrogating an omniscience that belongs only to God. Thus your letter here is blasphemy.

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