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I never argued for separating the Islamic faith from the Koran, quite the contrary. I argued for separating the Islamic faith from Islamic politics. We hardly have an issue with Muslims per se, we might have an issue with Islamic governments who condone or sponsor terrorism and we surely have a...

The problems you report are not problems of islam as a faith, or even as an organised religion, but problems generated by Islamic nations, i.e. states where the official law is Islamic law, but the Sharia is based upon the Q'ran, it is not identical with the Q'ran and has changed over time. When...

When you say that "there is but one God and his name is Allah" I think you make a mistake. You seem to refer to the basic creed expressed by the phrase: "La ilaha illa Allah" "There is no other god than God" i.e. there is just one God. You will find the same formulation in Jewish and Christian...

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Technically, AFAIK, the unbelievers the Q'ran talks about are the primitive politheistic religions and sects spread throughout the middle-east at the time. Jews and Christians are referred to as People of The Book. All three great monotheistic traditions share their origin in Abraham/Ivrahim and...

I'm not sure about the "scale" argument: ''BAA’s UK airports handled 15 million passengers in July'' 6.5 million of which passed through Heathrow. How is racial profiling different from giving people some recognisable badge to sew on their clothing? It is different and worse because...

It might be idealistic, but things like consitutions, which are at the base of our democracies, are based on ideals. When we stop following them, we become no better than totalitarian oppressive regimes. Of course it is a slippery slope, so we may argue back and forth until it is too late...

You reap what you sow. If you treat them like criminals, they will become criminals. Mistrusted, shunned, oppressed, what alternative do you give them? The quality of a free democracy is measured by the way it treats its minorities, otherwise it is just a tyranny of the majority...

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I'll just ask the stupid question then: Finder Tabs means Cocoa Finder means radical all-round Finder improvement? Apropos filename search in Spotlight: put quotation marks around your query.

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Great thread! Of late I have enjoyed reading Dan Simmons (Illium and Olympos), Neal Stephenson (Baroque Cycle) and Piers Anthony (early Xanth stuff). For fun, I definitely recommend Terry Pratchett (Discworld)! For literature perhaps Monaldi & Sorti (Imprimatur, Secretum), Luther Blissett (Q) or...