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European Colonialism is the Only Thing That Modernized Islam
2015-02-20
Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660

#3  What is striking about this quote is the 'modernity' of the pre-colonial Tripolitanian ambassador's diction.

Iran, Morsi-Egypt, Hezbollah, the Taliban the MB etc. are truly just Islam reverting to it pre colonizational form.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-02-20 11:23  

#2  You can't "modernize" Islam---look at current day Turkey.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-02-20 07:33  

#1  Required reading.

Pretty much how I see it after six months in Libya living with the locals and talking to Imams and others.
Posted by: Mystic   2015-02-20 00:31  

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