| | Give examples of so-called financing, then we can talk again.
What example did the Inquisition set as an example?
What the crusades?
Yes, the Islam had an agressive past, but so had Christianity. On the otherside Musselmen have been present in Europe for years without unleashing a terrorist act or a war. And despite the alleged hostility, they were.
Muhammad, who was prophet and founder of Islamism, had been persecuted like the Christian minorities in Rome. Of course, unlike the Christian minorities, Muhammad chose the path of war to get his empire.
There were centuries in which Islam was rather peaceful to its neighbours and trade flourished. Even the Sharia was more lax in those times than it is nowadays.
Although the traditional and reactionary Islam has kept many countries in poverty and stagnation, Islamismis capable of transition and it will change, but certainly not in countries who are economical disasters. The original scriptures have certain militaristic parts in it, but so has the old testament.
For example:
The early (classic) Qu'ran scripture included limited tolerance of unbelievers (Jews, Christians). In those days of the writings, they were allowed to live and practice their religion in Arabic cities and countries as long as they paid a special tax. However, if we keep it in temporal context, then Islamic conclaves have been much more tolerant than Christian states of the time, who enforced strict obedience to the state religion.
It is just sad that this belief couldn't develop beyond this Golden Age and experience something like the enlightenment of the Renaissance.
(Edited by Max on 8/16, 10:45am)
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