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   From: morestelx@hotmail.com   
      
   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?   
      
   Morgil   
      
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