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To: RetiredNow who wrote (222062)	3/5/2005 3:32:01 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) of 1576462

Oil is not a Muslim contribution to society and the advancement of humanity. Besides, it was Western dollars and Western know-how that made oil a necessity and figured out how to extract oil in the first place. Muslims no more contributed oil to society than I am contributing to the air you breathe. I think you underestimate the oil contribution. I read recently that the number of new books created in the Muslim world today is less than at the least enlightened times of the Muslims during the 6-7th centuries. Pretty pitiful. If you measured their contribution in terms of intellectual contribution, there's an astounding paucity. So how can Muslims become great again? Well, it's not through terrorism or through acceptance of despotism. It's through helping themselves. And we can help them too, be providing the muscle that they lack right now to stand up to mad mullahs and dictators. Then maybe one day Muslims can reach the elevated state that they once enjoyed a millenia ago. And we'll all be better for it. The reason the Islamic empire collapsed was because of internal corruption and a lack of forward growth from within. That kind of problem can exist on many different levels in the world and can effect anyone and anybody. It can be see on a national level, on a group level and on an individual level. Everything I have learned about that dynamic suggests that change can only come from within and not from without. Very few people turn their lives around because other people have decided that's what they need to do. Its the individual who decides and then makes it happen. I think that must also happen on a national level as well; to whit, it was the Ukrainians who decided things need to change, not anyone else. We can support that change but the catalyst/muscle is them, not us IMO. ted

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