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To: SAMWolf
Our history is who we are.

One example. You want to know why the Western and Muslim worlds view things so differently? The modern civilization of the West was born out of the Renaissance and Reformation, around 1500. The Muslim world had neither a Renaissance nor a Reformation, but instead suffered decline, politically, territorially and intellectually, from around 1700 to the humiliating aftermath of WWI. They hate us because they hate their own weakness and envy our strength. The history explains it, not the nonsense coming out of the press and liberal salons.

103 posted on 10/28/2003 2:05:40 PM PST by colorado tanker ("There are but two parties now, Traitors and Patriots")
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To: colorado tanker
That's what I tell my kids the Muslims are stuck in the 15th century and they want everyone else back there with them.
104 posted on 10/28/2003 8:31:45 PM PST by SAMWolf (Many are cold, but few are frozen.)
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