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To: longtermmemmory

Thank you. I hope little hope for the "modernizing" or "moderation" of Islam, unless by some miracle millions of Middle Easterners began to copy the secularist Turks. I visited Istanbul about six years ago, admittedly the most secular area in Turkey. The attitude of many Turkish people I met towards Islam was similar to the attitude most Japanese have towards Shinto --- religion as purely spiritual and cultural --- not political and militarist.

Unfortunately, most Japanese arrived as this attitude after atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.


26 posted on 04/03/2006 2:45:20 AM PDT by griffmorpho
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