From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 23:58:56 MDT
At 10:40 PM 9/18/01 -0700, samantha wrote:
>I think it is more of a young and bloody culture wrenched into the 20th
century
>kind of problem.
I keep seeing this attempted explanation. If it means that Islam itself is
`young', feeling its oats, you have to wonder why even later ideological
systems are not all frothing at the mouth with unchecked rage and
missionary zeal. Some have, of course; some have been restrained.
Islam is 1400 years old. Islam was already old long before anyone spoke
English. Some 55 generations. This is *not* `young'.
Damien Broderick
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