More stuff on the muslim issue

[pale__fire]

http://www.slate.com/id/2135820/

Point is though, this is the fundamentalist viewpoint. The American Christian or Israeli Jewish fundamentalist viewpoint would likely be as rigid.

Comments

[sidur_mishpacha]

Sorry--you're making a critical error in assuming all fundamentalisms are alike. They are alike in some important ways--patriarchal structure, rigid thinking, etc.--but are not in their behaviors. The activist fundamentalisms act in the world to change it--Crusades, for example. Jewish fundamentalists, while troubling, are far more limited in scope than the Muslims. The Christians are midway--while they have a broad agenda, their methods are largely political (which can lead to military action, etc., but can also be fought in a "rational" manner--that is, the rules of modernity apply

Kinsey's response

[pale__fire]

http://www.slate.com/id/2135917/... )

Re: Kinsey's response

[sidur_mishpacha]

Couldn't get a good look at the last posting on Mom and Dad's computer--I'll try again when I get home. As to the article above, yes, I do agree with it

Another interesting article

[pale__fire]

If true, this is really interesting as well. What does it say about how our own government operates?

http://www.weblog.ro/soj/2006-02-05/Muslim+Cartoon+Controversy:+What+the+Media+Isn't+Telling+You.html#66675