From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 19:50:46 MST
Spike noted:
<<Tolerance happens when no single philosophy owns everything.
In the middle east, Islam is so dominant, tolerance
will only be seen when there is some miraculous influx
of every philosophy known. I do not know how to get
50 million Chinese and 50 million Indians and 50 million
European and American rock and rollers to go settle in
the Asian desert among the Muslims, but that is about
what it would take to dilute the dominant philosophy
and result in a modicum of tolerance in that region.
spike>>
I wholeheartedly agree that there is a basic intolerance in human nature,
somehow based on the perceptions of maintaining one's privilege, or envying
the privilege of others.
I am guessing that modernization, in the field of communications will serve
the Jihadists, but also, eventually, undermine them. I would also add that a
change in the climates of the middle east, may have a salutary effect. No, I
am not saying Global Warming is good, but it may force "he with a scimitar in
one hand, and a Koran in the other" to reconsider what is important. I keep
this in mind of what, climatologists called, The Little Ice Age, and how it
altered European society.
Worthy of a further thread, yes?
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