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2005-11-20 Afghanistan-Pak-India

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Posted by Fred 2005-11-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer came up with an interesting theory,: that ordinary innocent Muslims are punished with death by God if the rulers are bad.

Obviously false, or else they would all be dead by now.

Muslims were generally opposed to new knowledge and did not like freedom of expression in this regard.

Tell us something new.

Religious leaders did not allow any analytical rationalism in discussions.

And their point is?

There was a reluctance to express new thoughts because of fear of violence.

Boy howdy, a little synaptic activity can sure cause a ruckus!

Above all, the Muslims were not able to reconcile modern economics to Islam because of their reading of medieval juristic opinion that they treated as final.

Which goes a long way towards explaining why Islam remains stuck in the stone-age. This reminds me very little of Charles H. Duell saying back in 1899 that; "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-20 02:17|| 2005-11-20 02:17|| Front Page Top

#2 No one had opposed the fatwa by another fatwa, therefore the dam could not be built.

Gotta admit it does sound a little like the local EPA/Greenie permiting department.

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-20 10:22|| 2005-11-20 10:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Godamer! No dam allowed by a 300 to 0 fatwa vote? Actually, it is probably a good thing there. If they built a dam with the engineering knowledge locally available, there would probably be a dam failure and thousands would drown downstream.

Ima votin for no dam in this instance.

Posted by Al Aska Paul">Al Aska Paul 2005-11-20 13:19|| 2005-11-20 13:19|| Front Page Top

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