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Skriven 2011-03-22 09:04:02 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 15612 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Them damn French Warmongers
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Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Robert Bashe on Tuesday March 22 2011 at 01:48:

MV> The claim that Islam is basically incompatible with democracy is just
MV> as false as the claim that Christianity is incompatible with
MV> democracy.

Not if you look at the facts, and don't go back 500 years to look at
Christianty, only to compare it to _modern_ Islam.

RB>> Look at muslim history: nothing but assissinations, power struggles,
RB>> wars of aggression.

MV> Look at the history of the Christians. Not much better. The only
MV> difference is that they were 700 years ahead...

That's why I have repeatedly written that the muslims only need around 500
years to reach the same level as we are at today. Overly pessimistic? Maybe,
but based on the present and the last several hundred years, it certainly
doesn't appear that way.

And please don't try to compare such abberations as the Kaiser and Hitler to
the centuries-old traditions of Islam - the former were throwbacks to the
middle ages, whereas what happens in muslim countries and among muslim
extremists nowadays is merely a continuation of the muslim tradition. There has
_never_ been an age of enlightenment or secularism in Islam. Not yet, anyway.

Cheers, Bob

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