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Thread #102635   Message #2081434
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
19-Jun-07 - 05:05 PM
Thread Name: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Subject: RE: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Reformation? The history of the Sixteenth Century is full of parallels with the religious fanaticism and extremism that has been seen in the Islamic World as True Believers have set out to eliminate what they see as the laxity which has crept into their religion, and to purify it by going back to their version of Islam.   

When the Taliban destroyed those ancient Buddhist monumental statues, that was an echo of what happened in various parts of Europe in Cathedrals and churches as they were "cleansed of idolatry".

One shouldn't read too much into dates, but in the Islamic calendar the year is 1428.