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To: Savage Beast
There is yet another possibility. The West could convert to Islam.

This could take the form of Islamic fundamentalism, the Western democracies replaced by Islamic theocracy dominated by the sharia and with the Koran as "constitution".

However, the people of the West, ever inventive, could create a new, secular form of Islam and then export it to existing Islamic theocracies.

Such a secular Islam presumably would outlaw Western practices most offensive to Islam, e.g. sexual promiscuity, and Islamic practices most offensive to the Western mind, e.g. death by stoning, slavery, and the de facto criminalization of rape victims. Presumably it would also include such Western concepts as the seperation of religion and state, constitutional government, freedom of religion and speech, prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, and respect for human rights.

This secularized Islam would come to resemble the secularized Christianity of the 20th century. Westerners might achieve that which Muslims cannot.

There would be little difference in the hostility between secularized and fundamentalist Islam and the present hostility between Muslims and non-Muslims, but the difference would be significant.

For one thing, it would provide for a "Muslim Middle-Class" forming a buffering spectrum between the fundamentalists and the secularists, and it could lead to the evolution of Islam into the modern world. It could also provide for the survival of Western Civilization under the guise of Islam.

I am not recommending this. I do not recommend it. But it another possible scenario.

111 posted on 07/26/2002 9:11:38 AM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: Savage Beast; Alouette; zhabotinsky; SJackson; Simcha7; Yehuda; Jeremiah Jr; crystalk; dennisw; ...
>There is yet another possibility. The West could convert to Islam.

Well, blither on!  You are a Muslim, aren't you?  If we track the Savage Beast out into daylight, we see your true colors.

Allah = Satan and that means "Submit or we'll murder you."  Ask anyone who is Jewish.

Here is your West converted to Islam:  30 also here:  Dream of the Capturing of Many Women - 1997

112 posted on 07/26/2002 5:46:31 PM PDT by 2sheep
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To: Savage Beast
But it another possible scenario.

LOL! Did you ever hear of Ockham's Razor? I'm sure though you were being whimsical.

113 posted on 07/26/2002 7:18:06 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Savage Beast
Algeria proves #111 a fantasy.
118 posted on 07/27/2002 1:07:54 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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