Your selective history while ignoring context does not stack up against historical anthropology which actually looks at what humans are rather than attempting to have urinating contests over particular cultures.
Culture is mutable.
If it doesn't work, it dies. So it changes based on the history and environment around it.

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Having read the English version of the Koran about 35 yrs ago, two statements by Muhammad resonate with me.

1, Muhammad said that as a Muslim living in a non Muslim you should abide by the laws of the land you live in as if they were my word.

2, That if as a Muslim you do not like these laws you must not try to change them, but leave the country and find a more acceptable home.

Here's a question that is related to this topic:
What percentage of christians would support a president that is openly atheist?

The current secularism of our government is certainly not a fond choice that the christians have accepted. Nope, they've fought it as much as possible and still are. They want our public property to display religious law and candidates like Mike Huckleberry have stated their intentions that we amend the constitution to reflect "god's law". There are many other examples today of christians that wish to revert our society to the dark ages of blind faith without reason.

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Your inaccurate generalizations don't stack up against Anything.

Your post is absurd, deflecting, and Empty.

If you consider conquering and cleansing "working" - then Islam continues to be a viable/working culture.
Still cleansing the last Christians from their lands from Egypt to East Timor.
From Armenia to Kashmir.
From Lebanon to Sudan.

You're urinating into the wind.

One hell of a lot of us in the UK, as a member of the Labour Party it made sick when Dubya said he prayed with Tiny Hare!

I don't know who Tiny Hare is nor do I care, but the Christians believe that praying with someone is a help to both parties involved. They pray with murderers and prostitutes. It's the Jesus thing to do. Nothing at all wrong with it. Doesn't hurt a soul. Unlike:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...Op6Wk5km8bb7rw

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...98w8wD8VCHSSG1

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0bU...watch_response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0C2QvqIlo#
"The courageous over the infidels, make war for Allah and are not afraid... This is the depiction of the army of Allah that will come at Allah's decree, from here or from there, to liberate these lands from the defilement of the Jews, for Allah was angry with them in his book and called them once 'monkeys,' once 'swine,' and once 'donkeys.'" (Palestinian TV, March 30, 2001)

Since your reading was so long ago, I suppose you cannot quote chapter and verse, though you remember.

Let me ask you this, do you see evidence for your #2. point in the real world today. Shall we say in Holland or Denmark or Norway, France or even Britain? It seems to me that Muslims there are quite displeased with some of the laws there and do not seem to be rushing back to Muslim countries in any great numbers.

In fact they are fanning out and building huge Moslem complexes in many major cities of the world. Saudi Arabia and the Wahhabi (sp) branch of Islam is especially busy spreading the word, I think. Don't you agree?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0bU...watch_response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0C2QvqIlo#
"The courageous over the infidels, make war for Allah and are not afraid... This is the depiction of the army of Allah that will come at Allah's decree, from here or from there, to liberate these lands from the defilement of the Jews, for Allah was angry with them in his book and called them once 'monkeys,' once 'swine,' and once 'donkeys.'" (Palestinian TV, March 30, 2001)

con't:
http://www.jfednepa.org/mark%20silverberg/wahhabi.html

I haven't read the book, but I would assume the facts stated are accurate.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0bU...watch_response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0C2QvqIlo#
"The courageous over the infidels, make war for Allah and are not afraid... This is the depiction of the army of Allah that will come at Allah's decree, from here or from there, to liberate these lands from the defilement of the Jews, for Allah was angry with them in his book and called them once 'monkeys,' once 'swine,' and once 'donkeys.'" (Palestinian TV, March 30, 2001)

as an athiest, wahabists are rather like christian evangelicals, they interprete the book for there own self gratification.

Dubya seems to understand, maybe miracles do happen.

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/muslimlife/ click on the words of bush

I for one believe society is becoming to removed from God's law. Our faith and religious beliefs help us to decide what is acceptable and what is unacceptable. Society is already too liberal, scientists are know cloning animals, next it will be humans. Abortion is legal now in many parts, prostitution is legal in some places, people taking unprescribed drugs has all become part of the norm in some societies. People of faith can also use reason, no one is looking to go back to the dark ages, but neither do I want to run headlong into anarchy.