[redrock]

Sorry you don't like Gandhi..(which I believe is due to a wrong evaluation of the Mahatma)..but you can't please every idiot in every situation every time...can you????

Have a nice time.....

redrock

[aruanan]

This isn't to say, though, that you weren't pretty much spot on about the Muslim world. The key to understanding it is to realize that they represent an irruption into the present of what was everyday life for most of the ancient world (though with the addition of cell phones and bombs).

Sorry you don't like Gandhi..(which I believe is due to a wrong evaluation of the Mahatma)..but you can't please every idiot in every situation every time...can you????

I don't like Gandhi because he was unbelievably ignorant, stupendously arrogant (but what else could you expect given the combination of his gender and ethnicity?), entirely ad hoc and self-centered in his morality and views on violence, and a weasally little perv (he liked to help his teenaged girl attendants toward spiritual greatness by giving them enemas). He helped return India to the violence and religious bigotry that have characterized most of its history. Those who watched the Oscar-winning Gandhi infomercial paid for by the Indian government or other forms of hagiographic propaganda generally come away with the intended effect (ie, "...which I believe is due to a wrong evaluation of the Mahatma"). The only thing great about Gandhi is the degree to which the world has been deceived about what he was really like. But then there are still people who think both Bill and Hillary Clinton are saints too.