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To: Sea Otter who wrote (225891)	10/25/2007 3:46:08 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Islam is the most totalitarian system ever devised by man. The prayer and potty rules push it to the point of insanity. * * *

To: Sea Otter who wrote (225891)	10/25/2007 4:11:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793964

The fundamental problem, I think, is Islam itself. That's politically incorrect, but I think future events will show it to be true. Communism was an ideology, Islam is a religion. People change ideologies fairly readily, but not religions. Religion is much more core, elemental and difficult to change. Yes and no, I think. Religions are more elemental, but they are not everywhere and always the same thing. If you look at the history of Islam, you will see versions that are relatively tolerant and enlighted, and versions that are fanatic and puritanical - often in neighboring countries during the same period! So I would say the problem with Islam is twofold - first that this is a period when the fundamentalists are in ascendance, and second, that no form of Islam has yet been developed that can coexist well with modernity except a sort of lapsed version. But that lapsed version was in the majority forty or fifty years ago in many countries, and there is no reason to think that it couldn't happen again. It's the ascendancy of the Wahabbi/Khomeinist strains of Islam that are the problem, not the whole of Islam.