Am 2004-12-02 02:44:58, schrieb Andrew M.A. Cater: > I stand by this one :) If you look at the history books: Frederick > Barbarossa had a multi-cultural court in Sicily with Christian, Islamic > and Jewish scholars around. Arabic Spain had no particular problem with > Jews or Christians. > > The Koran suggests some degree of religious tolerance for "peoples of the > Book" as I understand it. The Bible text is therefore probably relatively > unproblematic: apostasy from Islam, however, is a serious offence and any > perceived attempt at conversion may be poorly viewed. Thanks :-) > Look at the history of the sack of Jerusalem in 1099 from the > chronicles of the Second Crusade - people boasting of wading in blood - > and you'll see that at least some of the anti-Christian/Crusader hatred > was well founded in fact at the time. :-( > Apropos the situation currently in force in various countries round the > world and each countries national restrictions: it is appropriate for > citizens and non-citizens to obey the law of the country they are in. And if I think, that I can not visit the USA because I am a Moudjahidine... I am awaiting prison... nice country the USA. Some of my friends are missing sinc 9/11 and they are Iranien. FBI, CIA and Homeland Security has done a good job to recrute new terrorists... Then distributing of porn journals in Iran to destabilize the Gouvernement... > If you are in Iran/Saudi Arabia/Myanmar/<any other country> you should > behave with respect and live appropriately by that country's laws as far > as this is possible. The Debian Project can't legislate for <random > country>: if, as Michelle Konzac says, nudity and pornography is viewed > very severely in Iran - that is a matter for the Iranians using Debian > in Iran. If that means producing a partial mirror / remastering CD's to > meet local conditions and disseminating Debian in accordance with local > laws and customs, so much the better. That's a matter for local Debian > users to manage and they are best placed to advise. But this can only be managed form outside Iran... not IN iran. And this is what I do curently, but too much work for me alone... ...and I was not able to create my own Jigdo-Templates. Note: Curently I am in Strasbourg but planing to migrate next year to Morocco and my "New" family :-) > If <random package> can't be sent to Iran/<random country> the Debian > maintainer should perhaps place an entry in the package description > explaining why. The GPG entry has something of this sort in it, explaining > that mere possession of cryptography may be illegal in some countries. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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