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Subject:
RE:Political reforms...
sentinel28a
10/9/2005 7:09:08 PM
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| One does have to remember that Islam did once sponsor a renassiance of sorts around the 6th Century. This was back when Islam promoted the free exchange of ideas and science, some of which spurred the classic European Renassiance. However, when some of those free-thinkers back then started threatening the power of the imams and other clerics, that's when we start seeing the iron codification of Islamic laws (i.e. shari'a) that we're dealing with today. It's probably no coincidence that when Islam started to stagnate is when they started losing wars to the Christians in the Balkans and in Spain.
I agree with Patriot that Pan-Arabism is less an Islamic movement than it is an Arab one (specifically an Egyptian idea--Qaddafi, Saddam and Assad just adapted their own models from Nasser). I don't see any strong evidence of an Islamic renaissance as of yet, which is one of the big problems Islamic nations are facing at the moment--and the rest of the world right along with them. Hopefully it'll happen soon, and one of the spurs to it might be a workable democracy in Iraq.
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