"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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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