tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post4795804483796281648..comments2023-10-21T16:25:58.899+01:00Comments on Three Score Years And Ten: Death In IraqHarry Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01600933854461096745noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-34171564325060829992007-10-16T08:56:00.000+01:002007-10-16T08:56:00.000+01:00Mrs K; On Islam, I found "The No-Nonsense Guide to...Mrs K; On Islam, I found "The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam" by Ziauddin Sadar and Merryl Wyn Davies (New Internationalist, 2004))to be readable, informative and good on the pro and cons.Harry Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01833380054575757928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-33397581539385205272007-10-15T20:47:00.000+01:002007-10-15T20:47:00.000+01:00HarryI wanted you to see the para below'The Torah,...Harry<BR/><BR/>I wanted you to see the para below<BR/><BR/><BR/>'The Torah, the Bible, the Koran.<BR/><BR/>Each offers a recipe for spiritual contentment, for hope, for love, and for controlling basic human passions, and each claims to have gotten the recipe straight from God, but via a different messenger. They're all just trying to provide a formula for orderly, spiritual living, but somehow the message gets twisted, like cells in a body turning cancerous. Self-appointed spokesmen declare boundaries of correct belief, outsiders are labeled heretics, and the faithful are called upon to attack them.<BR/><BR/>I don't think it was meant to be that way.'<BR/><BR/>(Para from Cross bones, published 2005 by Kate Reichs).mrs khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05293272720118841380noreply@blogger.com