03-19-2012, 04:55 PM
Swiss bank accounts.
My memory is terrible, but didn't Saudia Arabia (again with the spelling) sent Wahabi or Wasabi or some sort of VERY conservative teachers all over the place to inculcate the masses in their version of Islam? (Please, I'm not being intentionally insensitive with the branch of Islam; I just have a ROTTEN memory.) I think that this version of Islam has been what these folks have learned. It will take a looooong time, but can't it be turned around?
Okay, that's my two cents. I certainly haven't been there, and my opinion is just speculation.
You know what's so sad? We talk about the Renaissance, but while we in the West were being "reborn," those in the East still had the knowledge. My understanding is that they were much more tolerant of religious diversity then say, the Spanish. Heck, until just recently, any guy who wanted to stay in line for the British throne couldn't have married a Roman Catholic. He could have married anyone from an atheist to a Zorastrian, but not a Roman Catholic. Not too tolerant, if you ask me.
My memory is terrible, but didn't Saudia Arabia (again with the spelling) sent Wahabi or Wasabi or some sort of VERY conservative teachers all over the place to inculcate the masses in their version of Islam? (Please, I'm not being intentionally insensitive with the branch of Islam; I just have a ROTTEN memory.) I think that this version of Islam has been what these folks have learned. It will take a looooong time, but can't it be turned around?
Okay, that's my two cents. I certainly haven't been there, and my opinion is just speculation.
You know what's so sad? We talk about the Renaissance, but while we in the West were being "reborn," those in the East still had the knowledge. My understanding is that they were much more tolerant of religious diversity then say, the Spanish. Heck, until just recently, any guy who wanted to stay in line for the British throne couldn't have married a Roman Catholic. He could have married anyone from an atheist to a Zorastrian, but not a Roman Catholic. Not too tolerant, if you ask me.
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