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Originally Posted by kgoerz
Those people never experienced the Age of enlightenment. They will forever be in the Dark Ages.
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Kgoerz,
I agree that A-Stan hasn't seen the age of enlightenment, but I would also argue that Iraq and the rest of Islamic societies haven't either.
What they have, is Islam (Dark Ages) meshed with Modernity and the industrial trappings that went with it (guns, bombs). They skipped out on the injection of humanism from the Renaissance onward that pulled Western Civ from said Dark Ages and made things like liberal democracies viable. It is their 10th century mindset combined with 21st century weaponry that makes them dangerous.
Warrior-Mentor,
I read a book a while back that described "religious moderates as failed fundamentalists." The silent masses of Muslims are just that. . . feeling bad that they don't have the balls to strap that vest on themselves.
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