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[Summer Wine]

Quote:

BEIRUT � Many commentators on Islam make the same mistake: They instinctively assume that Muslim resistance to western globalisation reflects the inability of Muslims to accept the social and structural change that �modernity� requires. Muslims, in this view, fail to rise above the �closed� world of cultural traditions, and to embrace change. They shy away from, or react against the �choice� offered by modernity. The Philosopher, Henri Bergson, writing in 1932, suggested that one reason that some intellectual societies � for which he coined the term �closed� societies � were unable to evolve into �open� societies was that religion arises as a kind of mental habit that binds human intelligence to the instinctive drive for solidarity and continuity. Some societies were simply incapable of lifting themselves above these �cultural constraints� to embrace dynamic society. Karl Popper in his �The Open Society and its Enemies� further refined Bergson to imply that �closed� societies were profoundly inimical to the idea of human freedom.

http://conflictsforum.org/2009/why-can%e2%80%99t-muslim-societies-be-more-like-a-globalised-west/#more-443

Some of you might find this an interesting read and discussion.

[caniff]

F: "I just discovered the cure for cancer!!

M: "Why are you alone in this lab without your costume?"

[Fox]

Advanced, globalized society requires secularization. Muslims seem to have a hard time with that. It's that simple.

[pkang0202]

[Fox]

[Koveras]

Why can't you be more like me?

[bacasper]

How is this a current event?

[Reggie]

When they leave their worship service at the Seoul mosque and make their way down Hooker Hill to get on the Line 6 subway, the Muslims probably see Westerners doing so many things the Quran tells them not to do.

[mises]

Who cares.

1) Don't import them
2) Don't invade them

Then we don't have to worry about them.

[bacasper]

[mises]