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To: Brumar89 who wrote (909344)	12/18/2015 7:26:41 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Respond to of 1573211

Extreme ignorance.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (909344)	12/22/2015 9:11:57 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573211

You need to try to respond to major gist of the post, than deflect & dodge, dimmy. This current religious imam of Turkey & his words, why are you so being so intentionally stupid? Turkey is an ally of ours, in NATO, secularism is what saved Turkey from descending into a theocratic state years ago, like Iran is now.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (909344)	12/22/2015 9:14:39 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573211

Whatever would make anyone think Islam was more secular 1000 years ago? Another stupid question. Anyone who has knowledge of history knows Islam was in possession of great thinkers who based their thought on the Greek classical thinkers; medicine, science, astronomy & mathematics around this time. This was a golden age of Islam ( until knotheads like the one below took over ) Try the Islamic Aristotle, Averroes, born 1126AD, had a major, MAJOR influence on Western thought & Christianity, the reintroduction of Greek Classical thought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes Averroes was a defender of Aristotelian philosophy against Ash'ari theologians led by Al-Ghazali. Although highly regarded as a legal scholar of the Maliki school of Islamic law, Averroes's philosophical ideas were considered controversial in Ash'arite Muslim circles. [7] Whereas al-Ghazali believed that any individual act of a natural phenomenon occurred only because God willed it to happen, Averroes insisted phenomena followed natural laws that God created. [8] [9] [10] Averroes had a greater impact on Christian Europe: he has been described as the "founding father of secular thought in Western Europe" [7] [11] [12] and was known by the sobriquet the Commentator for his detailed emendations to Aristotle. Latin translations of Averroes's work led the way to the popularization of Aristotle. [13] This is not Averroes...