It is not acceptable to you and me, but it is arrogant to demand others live their lives to our liking.
Well, that's exactly the type of system I was advocating. I prefer to live in a civil society which is structured on the principles of live and let live. You, too, apparently. And we can look over our borders at people who prefer to live a different way, and give thanks that we don't live there. And if they try to come here, blow them away.
Well, I don't expect you to agree to blowing them away, so I guess you and I will probably need to live in different countries, or at least agree to disagree.
Funny enough I never hear about this part of the Islamic Republic of Iran when women's issues are discussed.
Yeah, I know you're either from Iran or have family from there, or a strong connection that makes you feel like an expert on All Things Iranian, but there's a lady who just got a Nobel Prize who says you're wrong. Funny enough I believe her and not you.
You are not giving them enough credit.
Sez you. The more I studied it, the more I realized that the Muslims are like the Soviets, they claim they invented everything, including baseball.
I don't know jack about math, but I know Newton invented calculus. The Hindus claim that they invented the concept of zero, and so do the Muslims, but in fact it was invented somewhere in Southeast Asia. Not sure what is meant by that, I assume Vietnam. What we call today algebra was invented by the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Hindus, but translated by the Arabs. (See, for example, Diophantes of Alexandria and the Rhind Papyrus.)
So, it's not at all surprising that the Muslims haven't invented anything in a long, long time. They never did.
Scientific freedom and faith are antithetical. Scientists are funny, they don't like being told what to believe. Making people bow down on their hands and knees six times a day and telling them their heads will be cut off if they don't submit is not exactly conducive to free thought.
It's conducive to group thought. |
