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Originally Posted by IRL";p="
"The golden era", is the biggest lie of all islamic myths perpetrated in the West.
A golden era for muslims, perhaps. Hell on earth for everyone else. And this is what we accept as a moderate religious viewpoint now in the west?
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This is true and I/my article stand corrected to some degree.
But it mostly- does give/ADMIT the State of Current Islam from a Muslim point of view.
He's imploring Muslims to change in a positive manner by Not attacking what he also may believe is violent. ala many leaders who say that but also aren't sure.
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This "golden era" that you here muslims desiring a return to is imply a return to power over the lesser peoples and faiths, and that is specifically why reform is such a silly statement. Reform to what?
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again..
I think the author is being more romantic than practical here.
But There were times when Islam was more tolerant.
Such as under the Ottomans, when it wasn';t heaven for other religions but there was cwholesale cleansing in Muslim countries as there is now.
50 years ago the M-E was 15% Christian, now 2%.
Asian Muslims also seemed more tolerant pre-1900- maybe it was just not feeling their dominant numbers yet.
More Below on my sentiments re Islam