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2004-06-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Khatami: 'Islam Encourages Emulating Others Without Losing Islamic Identity'

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Posted by Fred 2004-06-06 6:59:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Does anyone else think that Islamic speeches and apologists use a lot of logically impossible ideas?

I don't think you can use the technology and advances of the West properly without adopting some of their systems. This is not cultural imperialism, but rather a recognition of the fact that something like a computer is the culmination of a thousand different contributions of a thousand different minds in a thousand different fields over thousands of years. Western society produces these kinds of products because we allow for the free thinking and inquiry which leads to discovery, to research, to knowledge. You ain't gonna find anything like that in the Qu'ran. On its own, the Muslim world could never have come up with half of the stuff the West has, because it simply does not have the free thought infrastructure that makes our own civilization possible.

And you cannot integrate the technologies without either accepting some of the ideas or perverting them - and with the latter, eventually people are going to notice and not be very happy.

Posted by The Doctor 2004-06-06 10:54:40 PM|| 2004-06-06 10:54:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Emulate"

Pfeh, not likely.

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."-Twain

Posted by .com 2004-06-06 11:24:16 PM|| 2004-06-06 11:24:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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