On Sep 2, 1:07=A0pm, "David Tenner" wrote:
> Naraht wrote innews:7ae86a34-5ba9-4b6b-b696-d2f53a8fc=
c5d@x42g2000yqx.googlegroups.com:
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> > On Aug 31, 6:55 am, heretic wrote:
> >> On Aug 22, 12:43 pm, Naraht wrote:
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> >> > With a POD after WWII, have at least one recognized Nation where a
> >> > person can get arrested for converting from Christianity to anything
> >> > (Islam, Judaism).
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> >> > My personal candidates, not sure how realistic they are...
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> >> > Spain: Juan Carlos II is more conservative than Franco...
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> >> > Uganda: Lord's Resistance Army wins...
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> >> > other ideas?
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> >> Much of the Balkan National Movements were tied tightly enough to the
> >> various Millets for this to be very plausable.
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> >> HTG
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> > So maybe Serbia, Greece or Bulgaria in the 1905-1914 time period?
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> Well, if we are to ignore the requirement of "a POD after World War II,"
> we can note that the Russian Empire--even after the 1905 Revolution--
> *formally* prohibited conversion from Christianity to Islam without
> government permission. =A0There was one loophole, however:
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> "One of the first concessions wrested from the crown in the modst of the
> disastrous war, the edict of religious toleration of April 17, 1905,
> seemed =A0further to enhance the power and prestige of the 'East.' Formal=
ly
> the edict granted the right to convert freely only from one Christian
> faith or denomination to another. =A0For Muslims, it was not meant to
> introduce any change in the tsarist position. =A0To convert from
> Christianity to Islam, a person had to prove that he or she had in fact
> always practiced Islam and had been Christian in name only; in other
> words, the state guaranteed the right to *be* a Muslim but not to *become=
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> one, which had already been the case before 1905. =A0Nonetheless the law
Could one convert from Christianity to Judaism and then from Judaism
to Islam?
(and yes, this doesn't qualify as post WWII, but 20th century still
surprises me.
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