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Politics : Islam, The Message
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (62)11/5/2001 10:23:26 AM
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It is rather ironic to note that the Muslim Caliphates of yore were one of the first globalizers. After the initial consolidation, conquest and compromises (such as the choice of the existing meteorite temple in Mecca), the Caliphate empire maintained commercial law and order in the center of the old world, and helped trading of goods and ideas across the eurasian continent. The Caliphs that adopted light taxation policies flourised to a level unseen since the ancient Roman time. Then the heavy-handed caliphs succeeded them to the throne. High taxation and militancy drove the west to search its own sea route to the far east, giving rise to what we know later as the modern western civilization. It is tragic that today's Islamic revivaism look to the rigid reactionist caliphs during Islam's decline as model instead of an ealier time of pragmatism and open-mindedness.

Jim
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