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2005-09-14 Terror Networks & Islam

TThe Arabs Must Choose Between Western Civilization and the Legacy of the Middle Ages

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-09-14 06:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It is no real choice, it is a Darwinistic outcome. Those who cannot adapt and modernize, die out. Not just Islamists, but primitive peoples around the world face extinction, as unromantic and harsh as that sounds.

They just *cannot* coexist with a "better way of doing business". Despite no hostility from the better way, they are so outclassed that even they know at some level that they have no future.

The struggle against modernity is one of annihilation. The last ditch effort to literally destroy modernity in an effort to preserve a dead, and mostly falsely nostalgic, past.

An irony is that, at their founding, they *were* the modernist way, far superior to what existed before. Their popularity stemmed not just from having greater efficiency than what was, but in greater popularity over their wretched predecessor system.

They will survive as a belief system, but only as a shell of what they are today. A reformation will strip and discard much of the evolved but not essential doctrines, much as how Christianity has evolved since the Reformation.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-14 12:58|| 2005-09-14 12:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Anonymoose you have more faith in their ablity to change than I do.

Posted by 3dc 2005-09-14 14:44|| 2005-09-14 14:44|| Front Page Top

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