Hi Billy, On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:25 AM, [email protected] wrote: > The Ibadis can be primitive and backward, as the article makes clear, but the > analog > that seems instructive might be a comparison to Russian Orthodoxy, which can > support > either intense modernization OR overt retrogression, as in the case of sects > of > so-called "Old Believers."
Fascinating. Sounds eerily like Communist China. :-/ -- Ernie P. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
