"Justin Case" <Thinhthi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Alex W." <ingilt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Justin Case" <Thinhthi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Christopher A. Lee" <calee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:43:08 -0400, "Justin Case"
>>>> <Thinhthi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>
>>>>>"534@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> The tiling in medieval Islamic architecture turns out to embody a
>>>>>> mathematical insight that Westerners thought they had discovered
only
>>>>>> 30
>>>>>> years ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.newsweek.com/id/36281
>>>>>Medieval Arabic (not Islamic) architecture was indeed great.
>>>>>Unfortunately,
>>>>>the rise of the Islamic religion is in direct pro****tion to the
decline
>>>>>of
>>>>>Arab culture and peoples. So much so that today, Arab culture has
>>>>>advanced
>>>>>little since the year 1000. The only Arab countries which have
>>>>>advanced are
>>>>>the ones embracing Western thought.
>>>>
>>>> No. The rise in Islamic fundamentalism, not the Islamic religion per
>>>> se which progressed and coexisted with science and engineering until
>>>> the fundamentalists gained control round about the time Europe was
>>>> starting to emerge from the Christian dark ages.
>>>
>>> Islamic fundamentalism? One cannot be a Muslim unless one adheres to
>>> what we consider Muslim fundamentalism. The Islamic religion demands
>>> adherence to both good and bad qualities of human conduct.
>>
>> Of course one can. Like Christianity, it is a matter of
interpretation.
>> There are some flavours of Islam which are quite happy to live with
>> technology, human rights and pluralistic ideoogy. Unfortunately, the
>> three major denominations of ****a, Sunni and Wahhabi are not among that
>> number.
>>
>> The fundamental problem affecting the Islamic world is that they failed
>> to develop the distinction between religion and secularity, as we did
in
>> Europe. The Enlightenment never happened. There was no emancipation
of
>> civil society, and with it no development of the middle and
professional
>> cl***** which are the mainstay of our civilisation.
>
> You're probably right. I guess there are people who make their own
> interpretation concerning passages concerning killing infidels, Jews and
> numerous other quite specific comments within the Quran and hadiths.
The Quran is no different from the Bible or other sacred texts:
contradictions abound. In principle, though, it is pretty clear on its
demands for tolerance of the People of the Book (Jews and Christians);
this
fact is commonly disregarded by those who abuse the Quran for political
ends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Book
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