The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31548   Message #411609
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
05-Mar-01 - 08:28 PM
Thread Name: Thought for the day Mar 3-loss of Buddha (update)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day Mar 3-loss of Buddha
(I'll risk the wrath of Allah, or at least His followers here) in other Muslim dominated regimes is also an atrocity.

Allah is just the Arabic way of saying God. One God, the same God Christians and Jews worship, so presumably "His followers" means any Christians or Jews on the Mudcat, as well as Muslims.

Using it the way you did in that sentence there, Don, came across as intentionally insulting and provocative.

I trust "in other Muslim dominated regimes" includes an implied "some". At this point in history it's probably true to say that "Muslim dominated regimes" are on the whole less open than "Christian dominated regimes" - but that's a historical accident, linked to historical causes like colonialism and exploitation and cultural imperialism. (For eaxample, the Taliban are the children of what the Cold War did to Afghanistan.)

For many periods in history precisely the opposite generalisation would be true, with a better chance of finding a relatively open and free society in Muslim countries than in many Christian countries.