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OP - August 31, 2014, 12:52 PM

Just been reading this (doesn't everybody!) and looked up Islam. It was a minor world religion then, not that important compared with what was going on that year! The Space Shuttle had been completed but not yet launched, Legionnaires Disease had happened but not yet named, Israel and Egypt had signed a peace agreement.

My impression was that religion was not that important as an identifier!

Maybe if people identified themselves in other ways, where they are from, their language, and not use what are actually very strange self identifiers?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #1 - August 31, 2014, 01:33 PM

For example, article in Observer by Paddy Ashdown uses the term "Islam"several times.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/30/counter-terrorism-jiahdis-britain-strategy-islam

Why? Would not a specific term about the actual organisation be more appropriate?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #2 - August 31, 2014, 08:03 PM

Islam is the problem. Not the interpretation. But the ACTUAL religion itself - the Qur'an and Hadith literature inspire IS.

No free mixing of the sexes is permitted on these forums or via PM or the various chat groups that are operating.

Women must write modestly and all men must lower their case.

http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?425649-Have-some-Hayaa-%28modesty-shame%29-people!
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Reply #3 - September 02, 2014, 02:39 PM

I think my point is that it was not recognised as such in 1978. What happened?

Why did religions get such airtime when really they were becoming a private hobby of eccentrics?

It as if modernism got forgotten!

http://www.ikbis.com/shots/78949

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #4 - September 03, 2014, 08:47 PM

^
Hopefully it's like a defective light bulb, it starts burning twice as bright before finally fading and burning itself out.
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Reply #5 - September 03, 2014, 09:19 PM

Brilliant analogy! May I tweet it?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #6 - September 03, 2014, 09:24 PM

It's yours.
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