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Originally Posted by MH
From my point of view it is impotent to have division between state and religion.
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Dr. Freud anyone?
Fact is we don't have a true seperation of state and religion here, religion is mandatory taught in most states. Blasphemy laws are still there...
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Originally Posted by tater
What sects of Islam are NOT fundamentalist, and how many are in that sect out of the 1.2 billion worldwide?
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The Alevis are pretty laid-back people...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alevi
About 15%-30% of the Turkish population, but granted a minority worldwide.
As much as I dislike (political) Islam, you cannot say it's all the same.
What about Indonesia, where the government is pretty hard engaged into the fight agains fundamentalists, Pakistan also to a level?
What about Iraq, where Sunnis and Shiites kick the S. out of each other (and both fight against the Kurds)
What about Qatar, Bahrein, Kuwait, Dubai who treat their foreign workers from islamic countries like slaves?
What about the great Arabic states who care nothing about the Palestinians? As long as they are in poverty, they have a reason to blame the Jews. There are some of the richest countries in the world in the Middle East, with their money every Palestinian "refugee" could have a big house, huge piece of land and prime infrastructure, but no, they need their scapegoats...
This doesn't look like Islam is a homogeneous mass.