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To: Destro
"the disjunction between religious and secular aspects of life in the west, and its openness to debate, ...questioning and change is precisely what traditional Islam lacks."

And this is one of the most important things the West has to offer the world.

7 posted on 05/06/2003 10:33:20 PM PDT by Savage Beast (The cosmos is God's holy scripture. His truth is there for all to read.)
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To: Savage Beast
The Islamics got the technical aspects of Greek civilization but never understood the rest of it. And as the Islamists kille doff or converted away the Greeks within the Islamic world their was a direct decline in Arabic civilization.
9 posted on 05/06/2003 11:04:49 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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