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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:51:02 +0300, Morgil  wrote:   
      
   >nystulc@cs.com wrote:   
   >> Öjevind Lång wrote:   
   >   
   >>>Do you mean that there was an element of anti-Muslim sentiment in   
   >>>his depiction of the calormenes?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> No.  That's not what I meant.  That's what I thought YOU meant, and   
   >> that was the proposition I was asking if you could defend.  You seem   
   >> to have completely failed so far.  Specifically, I am referring to the   
   >> following proposition, by another poster, which you agreed with:   
   >> "I've always felt it bears a resemblance to a pseudo-Christian bigot's   
   >> idea of Islam.  I _hope_ Lewis didn't intend that, but I'm afraid he   
   >> might have."   
   >   
   >How about that thing where these West Asian people   
   >come up with an evil plot to make it look like their   
   >bloodthirsty demon-god was in fact the same person as   
   >the benevolent Aslan, to get the more naiive Narnians   
   >to accept him. Do you think that points to ancient   
   >Mesopotamians or Persians too, and has nothing to do   
   >with how pseudo-Christian bigots would view Islam?   
      
   That is even more far-fetched.   
      
   They aren't Wexst Asian people, they are Calormenes. There is no Asia in   
   Narnia, and even the constellations of the stars are different. Or are you   
   determined to show that Lewis was a"pseudo-Christian bigot"? What evidence do   
   you have that his Christianity was false?   
      
      
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