[lit-ideas] Re: islam 'r us
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:35:00 -0400
Mr. Spratt, welcome to the list. I assume you're an American, even if you
presumably eat no fat. This is an interesting premise. Perhaps it's because
Islam only preserved, didn't create, where the Greeks created. But then, the
Romans copied the Greeks. Christianity was to some extent based in philosophy,
while Islam is strictly theology. The Europeans veered away from religion with
the advent of the Renaissance, while Islam veered more strongly toward
religion. Religion is a perpetual Dark Ages. Sometimes we clash with that
which we see ourselves in. We, the U.S., don't want to admit we're moving
into, or have moved into, a new Dark Ages, so we reject that part of ourselves
by giving it onto others, the Islamists. In that sense We Are Islam, and Islam
is Us.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Spratt
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 8/20/2006 1:57:41 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] islam 'r us
As new member of this list a question is on my mind. If the Christian and
philosophical underpinnings of the west are built upon the thoughts of
Aristotle, and these thoughts were preserved by Islamic scholars while Europe
was wallowing in the Platonic Dark Ages, why this disengagement by westerners
from recognizing Islam as a major contributor to what the west has become?
Rather than comparing the US to Rome would it not be more helpful to compare it
to Islam? After all Islam is a scientific, philosophical, religious and warrior
empire that survived, not to mention that it is an empire that cannot be
defined geographically not unlike the spread of unrestrained global capitalism.
It may be that the west?s thought processes run along the same lines as Islam
but denial is a strong force.
J.S.
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