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GREAT article, if more than a bit long. (Posted/copied w permission? Excerpt appropriate?)
To address one point: “Still, it’s fair to wonder why, if that’s true, the West ended up with the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the Scientific Revolution and the Islamic world got chronic underdevelopment, a pervasive religious obscurantism, Al Qaeda and the trust fund states of the Arabian peninsula?”
GW Bush’s fault, obviously. /sarc
Seriously, the leftist excuse is that the West succeeded by plundering and subjugating the islamic nations. Completely wrong, but there it is.
Imagine Sudan stretching from the Sahara to the Baltic and the North Sea.
one devoid of a priestly caste
Thats funny.
animated by the dogma of equality of the faithful, and respectful of all religious faiths.
Thats dishonest to the point of delusion. Its dishonest to the point of comedy.
The West had to learn the dogma of equality, and respect for all religious faiths. The point is that they did it. They learned tolerance and respect for the other at sometimes great cost but they learned it.
Islam never did. Islam never will without become something that is no longer Islamic. Christianity percolated slowly through western culture over the centuries and created what we see, a tolerant and intellectually curious people. Islam has never done that. It never can and it never will.
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