Sunday, September 2, 2007

Muslim world not a monolith

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The Muslim world is not a monolith, and Muslim understanding of their faith-tradition -- Islam -- in lacking a centre analogous to the Vatican, remains widely dispersed.

The differences among Muslims on how the Koran should be read and Islam practised reach back to the earliest years of Muslim history and have been the source of much internal conflict. These differences are compounded by the convulsions in varying degrees the Muslim world is experiencing presently from the effects of the fast moving global economy.
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Muslims ethnically are a diverse people, and Islam is no more an Arab religion than Christianity is a Jewish heresy. More than 80% of over one billion Muslims are non-Arabs, and most Muslims are located in south and southeast Asia

Don't you just love it when someone reinvents the wheel or discovers something so self-evident and that has been matter of fact for years. Check out Amazon.


Why can't anyone come up with something new? WHy do we have to rehash everything over and over, even the protests over stuipd cartoons?

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