Definately an interesting read. The one thing I'd point out is that this is really talking about monitary appeasement when in reality there may be other forms of appeasement.
However, from what I know of the Koran (admittedly very little overall), there can be no appeasement between those of the Muslim belief and the infidels. There is no common ground and peaceful co-existence. You're muslim or you don't exist, essentially. This war has been raging since the Crusades, and it won't go away anytime soon.
Not that Christians haven't had the same philosophy (e.g. the inquisition, even the time of Adam and Eve when the others were, for the most part, not mentioned). On the other hand, there was a time in the middle ages when there were Jewish and Christian settlers co-existed with Muslims under Muslim rule. There was common ground in that everyone believed in God; they just differed in the pesky details. The Jews and Christians were second class citizens, granted, but they did live together in the same cities.
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Date: 2005-11-21 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-21 03:20 pm (UTC)However, from what I know of the Koran (admittedly very little overall), there can be no appeasement between those of the Muslim belief and the infidels. There is no common ground and peaceful co-existence. You're muslim or you don't exist, essentially. This war has been raging since the Crusades, and it won't go away anytime soon.
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Date: 2005-11-21 03:27 pm (UTC)