and muslims lived in peace with christians in the iberian peninsula during that time. so what makes people here think people in the arab world are incapable of acting in enlightened self-interst? I just don't get it.
On 4/11/08, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I love how opponents of the current policy belittle Iraqis and Mulsims in > >general with this sort of invective. Europe was a smoldering fire of petty > >political, tribal and ethnic animosities for at least 3,000 years prior to > >this century. Yet somehow Europeans (and by extensions Americans, > Canadians, > >and other spawn of European colonization) are more capable of rational > >self-interest than those poor, backward Muslims. Or is it just the Arab > >Muslims who are incapable of civilization? I'm confused, please enlighten > >me. > > That is actually part of it, the Arab world never had an enlightenment, > reformation or counter reformation. Also while we were a smoldering fire of > petty political, tribal and ethnic animosities the Arabs had one of the > greatest civilizations. Damascus and Baghdad were the hubs of a very > advanced civilization that produced some of the greatest literary and > artistic works we know. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258377 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
