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To: zimdog

Turkey is on its way towards being a poorer Saudi Arabia. At this point it is only a matter of time, the trend is clear.

Name a "Muslim" country that is becoming less Muslim in its practices?

Again, they are all drifting towards the same result.

So it is really only a matter of time on which "choice" I would be tolerated in before it would come to a head.


42 posted on 09/04/2006 1:19:49 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: DB
Name a "Muslim" country that is becoming less Muslim in its practices?

If a Muslim country becomes increasingly "less Muslim", it will cease to be a Muslim country, no? That then renders the question moot.

I think what you meant to ask for is a Muslims country that is not Islamist. Turkey for now, although I don't expect the Turks will slide towards theocracy. Morocco is one, although the monarchy's pace of democratic reform is glacial. Albania, I believe. Senegal and Mali are becoming more Muslim (in that the percentage of citizens who are Muslims has been steadily increasing over the last century) and also more democratic. Albania is the same way, coming out from a long Maoist shadow of official atheism. Bangladesh, although I'm not too sure about that one. And for all their problems, the Lebanese will rebuild their country again.

Again, they are all drifting towards the same result.

You seem to believe that a Muslim majority makes for an inevitable theocracy. That's your opinion, but the facts are against you.

47 posted on 09/04/2006 1:36:30 AM PDT by zimdog
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