Moratorium on moderation/censorship/general whines.-give it up for lent eh?

[David Nicol]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Joe Brouhard <jbrouhard at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Each religion considers each other a  "falshood"

That's an inaccurate generalization.  Many religions consider other religions to
be none of their business.

The "civilizations of the world" class I took as a requirement for a bachelor's
degree had a couple weeks on the Islamic empire, as an example of
an empire that practiced tolerance -- well, the Greek empire was tolerant,
as long  as the conquered lands organized into city-states that was cool
by Alexander; but there were a lot of column-inches devoted to stating
how tolerant the Islamic Empire was.

A google search
http://www.google.com/search?q=tolerance+in+the+islamic+empire
yields all sorts of interesting discussions of the history of tolerance
as a civic value, such as

http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/toleran1.html
and historians brandishing evidence and theories at each other

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/02/myth-of-tolerance-in-classical-islam.html

Hooray for tolerance!  Hooray for diversity!  Hooray for the so-called sun
that rises and sets so reliably you could set a clock by it!

-- 
"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war,
assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the
fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." -- Dr. Albert Einstein