On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:10:52AM +0530, ss wrote: > I don't care much for European views on islam. They are confused. Europe is
Europe is diverse, not confused. A small (and, apparently dwindling) minority is in general for evidence-based methods and against belief-based, and for a strictly secular state. I am one of these weirdos. There are belief-driven people of many persuasions, including tolerant and not-so-tolerant. Some of the claim a leitkultur status which is no longer backed up the reality, or at least, won't be soon. > (naturally) a product of its own history and the Crusades were fought in > Europe. The winners of the crusades wiped most of Europe clean from islam, > but where Islam won, it (mostly) wiped all other religions clean. I believe > that Islam and Christianity have a "This world ain't big enough for both of > us" relationship with each other (and other religions) and "Europe's" views > on the hijab are a subtle reflection of that. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
