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2003-04-24 India-Pakistan

Perv calls for harmonizing Islamic education with modern knowledge

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-24 03:56 pm|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It'd also be nice if they adopted compound interest and modern concepts like property title and leases (There's some crap in the ahadith that make the latter two difficult. Written to maintain the power of 8th century despots, these verses do just as good a job of keeping the regular folks poor and ignorant as they did 1300 years ago.)

Posted by 11A5S 4/24/2003 6:02:42 PM|| 4/24/2003 6:02:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "5500 billion dollars of Japan"

Perv: note to self: re Japan
1. Copying Western technology = good thing
2. Copying Western technology works a whole lot better if copy western education
3. Ultimately need to copy Western political system.
4. Best to forget period when you led/ruled the world - it only holds you back from the necessary copying.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-24 16:04:22|| 2003-04-24 16:04:22|| Front Page Top

#3 "Does that mean they've stopped teaching that djinns are responsible for chemical reactions?"

Jaysus, Fred, a drink warning, please - How do you get diet soda out of a keyboard?

Posted by Tadderly 2003-04-24 16:13:25|| 2003-04-24 16:13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Japan would make a damned good model for the Islamic world. They've retained most of their culture, while modifying it and adapting it to the modern world. And they got all that jihad and shaheed crap out of their system. Japan wouldn't be the nation it is today if Japanese kiddies spent 90% of their school time memorizing 6th century Buddhist or Taoist or what-have-you writings.

Posted by Fred 2003-04-24 16:14:25|| 2003-04-24 16:14:25|| Front Page Top

#5 I dunno, Fred. Retained their culture? It exists in small pockets of society. "Old" Japan gets far more attention from the tourist trade and bad chop-sockie movies than from its current citizens.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-24 17:13:47|| 2003-04-24 17:13:47|| Front Page Top

#6 It'd also be nice if they adopted compound interest and modern concepts like property title and leases (There's some crap in the ahadith that make the latter two difficult. Written to maintain the power of 8th century despots, these verses do just as good a job of keeping the regular folks poor and ignorant as they did 1300 years ago.)

Posted by 11A5S 2003-04-24 18:02:42|| 2003-04-24 18:02:42|| Front Page Top

#7 The exhibition also displays Jubba [Depends] of the Holy Prophet SWAS worn by him during the battle of Oadh and his hair.
Mohammed wore DEPENDS?? That can't possibly be right!

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-04-24 21:07:24|| 2003-04-24 21:07:24|| Front Page Top

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