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To: RetiredNow who wrote (220730)	2/24/2005 10:52:15 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573219

"then I guess it's safe to surmise that Jesus lived from 0 to 32 A.D." Minor correction. For AD, there is no year 0. You go from 1 BC to 1 AD. If you want a year 0, you have to use the CE(current era) and BCE nomenclature.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (220730)	2/25/2005 4:52:10 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573219

I just don't buy into that common liberal argument that Democracy is an imposition on Muslims and that somehow Muslims are different than the rest of humanity or that Muslims are incapable of Democracy. I just don't buy it. Whether you buy it or not is not the point, the view is that a "good Muslim" will choose to organize society based on religious law as laid out in Sharia and defined by the clergy, and that means the clergy make the laws, not a democratically elected secular leader. That's not a "liberal argument", it's an understanding of one of the causes of resistance to democracy in the ME. There are other obstacles of course (primarily being that dictators don't freely give up their power), but that's the religous one. I think there was the same situation in England hundreds of years ago when they king was the head of the church. How could the population choose someone other than the head of the church to make society's rules?? As far as Muslims being different from the rest of humanity, remember democracy is the exception on the planet, not the rule .