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2015-02-20 Home Front: WoT

European Colonialism is the Only Thing That Modernized Islam

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#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|| 2015-02-20 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 You can't "modernize" Islam---look at current day Turkey.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-20 07:33|| 2015-02-20 07:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-02-20 11:23|| Front Page Top

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