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One of top American Muslim Leaders Says Holocaust Denial Undermines Islam

Very nice.

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Dean Esmay:
I think you're over-thinking it, Ali. All you have to say is that it's un-Islamic to lie and claim the holocaust never happened, and un-Islamic to embrace such a horrific and unforgivable crime.

As for reform vs. other forms of jewry: you're generalizing overmuch. Most Jews through history (including the Jews who wrote and kept and transmitted the Bible) were orthodox, but that didn't make them oppressive. You can be very religiously conservative without being a brute.
6.30.2007 3:27am
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