Ron Many thanks for the post.
Which begs the following question. Looking back at the Arab/Muslim empire, from about 700 A.D. until 1400 or so, and looking at the advances they achieved in science, math, medicine philosophy and so on, one has to wonder the following: "What sort of acceptance code did they have toward others in order for them to succeed?" For example, the height of Pre-Renaissance philosophy was in Spain. Both Muslim and Jewish philosophers, studying Plato and Socrates ( who the Arabs translated from Greek) wrote volumes on the subject and asked million of questions. Those philosophers would be considered heretics today ( 600 years later) by both fundamentalists Jews and Muslims. Hey even here in the US now, talking about such things as the existence of God is considered not Kosher. To recap my question. There has to have been some open minded ness toward others ( religion and race) in order for an empire to flourish like that. Where has that open minded ness gone? Unlike the Romans, or colonial Europe, the "outposts" of the Arab empire did flourish as well, if not better than the central capital. Alhambra and Granada, were not places that you pillaged for raw resources. So what happened? On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:34:16 -0500 "Ron Kulp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=nul Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
