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Originally Posted by Trapper John
You are absolutely correct, IF this is a static culture. I am questioning that view of Islam as static. Are we not seeing some evidence of changes in the culture today? Doesn't GR represent an example of a Muslim that does not take the tenets of Islam literally and inappropriate today? Didn't Christianity evolve from the days of the Inquisition? Couldn't Islam fracture into different sects just as Christianity did? As I asked earlier, are we missing an opportunity here to exploit and hasten a cultural change? If we continue to view this as a binary in black or white terms doesn't that create a no-win scenario?
Not too many things that I can think of are truly static and certainly not a culture of human beings.  |
TJ,
Islam has not shown any major examples of evolving...on the contrary, some of the most stringent interpretations and mind sets (Wahabiism) as it relates to the Koran came about in the late 1700's early 1800's.
This form of Islam is 'pushed' by Saudi Arabia and the 'free Mosques' in the US come with a free Wahabi Imam.