The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102635   Message #2085358
Posted By: robomatic
24-Jun-07 - 02:12 AM
Thread Name: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Subject: RE: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
I believe the term "Enlightenment" and possibly also "Reformation" has some definite meanings which are important to the points I've been trying to bring to the fore:

A) Tolerance of other faiths to the extent of accepting that other people believe and practise differently.
B) Relaxation or elimination of state control of religion or state religion.
C) Acceptance (or toleration) of the methods and results of the scientific approach.

Only recently has there been this development in the West, and it was long and bloody in coming. This has definitely not penetrated the Islamic world anything close to the West, and if the history of the West is anything to go by, the Islamic world has a long way to go.