Re: The joy of Democracy

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/11/2024 10:16, D wrote:

It is interesting how a religion needs to be watered with some blood before it starts to mellow. Islamd is 600 years behind christianity so I think they need a home grown crusade or two, before they start to mellow as well.

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The more sophisticated Muslims - I have met many pretty OK Iranians with degree level qualifications and so on - are fine. To them, Islam is a cultural background, not immutable law, same as Christianity is to us.
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It is the hordes of barely educated fundamentalists who are flooding in from severely economically backward countries who represent the real problem.

The most civilized I have met are iranians, egyptians and jordanians. Of the iranians, none were religious.