[FeliciaCat]

good book?

Thanks for the heads-up.

[KantianBurke]

Very well done though he's not entirely clear as to what caused Islamic nations to fall behind and stay behind the West. Remember for over 800 years, the Middle East was at the forefront of science, medicine and the arts. I believe his argument was that since Islam never had a separation of governmental and religious spheres one stopped development in the other i.e. if it wasn't in the Koran, its sucks.

[SJackson]

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