Okay, time to take this back channel, if you two really want to go on with
it in this tone and these terms. It's killing any other discussion that
might happen up front, so unless you can moderate the way you speak to one
another (forgo the <roll eyes> stuff, e.g., though I must confess to having
tucked away the delightful "suck my teeth" I learned from Sevanthi for some
future and no doubt inappropriate occasion), it really would be better to
slug it out in private. Thanks--Candice
P.S. I thought the point of your post was probably meant to supply those
Koran matches, Sevanthi, but I didn't respond because there was enough
unclarity to make me unsure of that. And I didn't see anything obviously
paralleling the Koran passages in your message, although I intend to follow
those links later. We're all awash in words and need to bear in mind how
high the noise level's gotten, not to mention the other things we all have
to do.
>> From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Letter to a leftist friend/the real mystics/innocents
>> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:30:27 -0700
>>
>> If you want a detailed anaysis of a complex discussion of traditional
>> Jewish law, which anyway dates from a very long time ago, you won't get it
>> from me.
>
>
> <roll eyes> I'll add it to the list of things you can't be expected to
> deliver.
>
> In a discussion which began with the WTC attacks, Candice mentioned some
> quotations from the Quran. She asked where there were similar passages in
> the OT.
>
> I cited similar passages, and cited the fact rabbis had cited them to
> justify Sharon's killing of Palestinians in specific. *That's* the
> connection between the Bronze Age and today, and made not by me, but some
> people who I'm sure would love to hear from you about their lightly veiled
> anti-Semeticism.
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