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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Did I say they should allow human rights violations? No.
Did I note that they are doing the same thing that Christians did at about the same time in their development? Yes.
If you look in Saudi Arabia, Europe and the US you can see the budding of a potential reform movement within the Islamic faith, in most cases almost as a response in anger of those who have taken the faith to fundamentalist extremes and warped it to promote violence in the name of Allah. Will it develop into an actual reform movement? I dont know, I dont pay enough attention- I have noticed Saudi Arabia having relaxed regulations allowing a greater freedom of speech which would work in favor of those wanting to fight against fundamentalists from within the Islamic faith. But currently it is still a battle of fundamentalists and religious conservatives vs. "western culture" instead of fundamentalists/hardliners/religious-conservatives vs. reformers.
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A "reform movement" to prevent hanging 16 yr olds w/ sharp tongues is budding? cute - I'd be loathe to make this an Islamic thing, though, ace, and quick to make it an Iranian Government thing. Is the Iranian Government at a similar point to the American Government during the Salem With Trials? Oh - that's not a valid comparison? Weird, who would have thought.
Your explanation of your thesis here is a strawman, btw, and carries no weight. The religious development cannot be compared w/ relative 'age' due to the different social and societal pressures of the actual ages in which the growth occured, even if this were a religious issue (which it, thankfully, really is not). In reality, the fight against fundamentalism strawmans the topic at hand.
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