[extropy-chat] re: even if Arab poverty were terminated

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/11/05, Jack Parkinson <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com> wrote:
>
> Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com> said:
> Subject: [extropy-chat] even if Arab poverty were terminated
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Message-ID: <20051110194714.93152.qmail at web51605.mail.yahoo.com>
>
> >If poverty were to be terminated in Arab nations, Arabs would still go to
> >war. The koran was >written in the 7th century, so for over 1,300 years
> >Arabs have beem reading advice such as to lie >in wait for infidels &
> jews
> >to ambush them at every opportunity. To attack the enemies of Islam is
> >an
> >unambiguous part of the radical Arab heritage, and though radical Arab
> >nationalists constitute >only a small fraction of Arabs, sympathy for
> >radicals is not inconsiderable.
> >Of course ending poverty wouldn't hurt at all, but you can see in Western
> >nations that >fundamentalist xians and orthodox jews becoming wealthy
> does
> >not substantially alter their >extreme religious views.
>
> I find the timescale quite interesting. Islam is in its 13th century. What
> was Christianity doing in that period? Militant crusades, repression with
> extreme violence and laying the groundwork for the inquisition.
> Becoming wealthy does not alter the views of extreme pro-lifers now
> either.
>
>
Plus, it's taken us some 300yrs to pull the teeth of Xianity to the point
where one can dissent openly and not be burned.
The job hasn't even begun with Islam.

Dirk
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