What theory?This seems to be another of those books published specifically because there's a market out there of people who like to read criticisms of Islamic culture. A couple of years ago, just before Iraq, it would have been criticism of France, the same logic applies. If there is a theory it's concerned with studying demographics in sub-sections of the book market and apparently, it's a very good theory.
The trouble is that as soon as crap like this has been published, it becomes accepted knowledge that can be quoted by armchair theorists. It's self-fulfilling.
Simon----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 4:52 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The de-islamization of Europe
From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Why? Because you're probably mistaken. I'd say that some of the Eastern European nations are less well developed. Romania certainly and possibly Bulgaria and Poland. Obviously, there's a reason for that and if you like Lawrence you can ramble on about the backward nature of former communist states. We'll let you do that I'm sure.But China would be a problem; it's doing too well.Both Spain and India are "former" Islamic states; both were Islamic for 500-600 years.So the theory will have to accomodate those as well. yrs, andreas www.andreas.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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