27th April 2004, 7:02 PM
Quote:You misunderstood lazy. He was saying the only way for the CURRENT way they do things to result in peace is for only one religion to be there at all, and then THAT TOO would just crumble to the dust because of how hollow that peace would be. He was making a point that they can't have peace and can't survive the way they are now and are infinitly DOOMED to obscurity unless someone steps in and does something. Essentially, they need a spanking from a more mature "parent" nation and then brought up again.
He said that they were wasting their money. I said that they weren't all doing that. Look at Qutar for proof of that fact.
Now, what I would say about the Arabs is that Islam as it is is stuck in a pre-modern mindset. Look at their societies. Religion isn't just something they do, it's a huge factor in their government. Religious leaders have huge power. Rights are limited to nonexistant. In many ways it really is like the middle ages... funny, when you think about it, given that in the European Middle Ages the Islamic world was the light in the dark room, the ones with all the knowledge and scholars...