On 11 Sep 2002 at 14:31, Mermaid . wrote:
> [Joe Dees]The paper does not augur favorably for Islam, since it
> claims that the divide is not over democratic vs. antidemocratic
> (citing polls showing that most citizens of authoritarian Muslim
> regimes desire democracy), but between the barbaric dehumanization of
> women in Islamic countries, perpetrated with the sanction of the local
> clerics and with appeals to the Qu'ran, and the relative gender
> egalitarianism of the West. In either case, the Qu'ran is cited as
> the authority, whether in justifying antidemocratic theocracy wielding
> sharia law or in mandating blatant gender bigotry. Not a resounding
> rejection of Huntington's observations vis-a-vis the aggressive nature
> of Islamic societies and their propensity to attack not only each
> other, but also all surrounding them.
>
> [Mermaid]Now that you have skimmed over all 30 pages of it...can you
> actually read it?
>
I did - and BTW, only 16 pages of it are text, and it is unaccountably
missing a page.
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