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I'm not sure what you're asking in that post Serge... But I'll try to clarify my position a bit.

And please Don't take anything I say as a reflection of my personal attitudes.

perhaps I phrased myself wrong. What I mean to say was that Shakespeare was trying to demonstrate that there should be equality among, well in this case it was religions not races but anyways... I think he portrayed Shylock as a guy that just got screwed. Even though he was trying to take out his hatred of christians on the other guy, he still should have gotten what he deserved.

If you'll recall there was a real life reversal of this exact story but was taken to further extremes. A man was living in near poverty and saw jew making all the money. He went on to take out his jealousy on them and the world reacted.

This in my opinion was one of the major steps towards religious equality in history. When the world stood up and said that persecution is NOT ok.

Same story goes for Osama. I'm sure at one point in his life he saw americans making all the money and living in apparent splendor and decided to take out his anger and frustrations in a negative way.

Once again. the world has stood up and said that this is NOT ok.

We're moving in the right directions

If you're asking when I think equality among religions began? I don't think it really has yet. Although I will say it has made great strides in that direction along with equality between the sexes and equality among races.


Edit: I'm sorry... I missed the reference to the dreyfus trial? was he in the movie? or is this something else? I havne't seen the film