"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]
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"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.
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