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[pantryslut]

Just in case any of you thought this was a new'n'shiny stereotype:

"One began better to understand how it is that Moslems are the rigid conservative element among the population of the earth's surface, setting their face against sudden changes, trusting to revelation rather than revolution, believing in unhurried hereditary process instead of progress. Islam has become a disorganized political society founded on an undeviating body of religious doctrine."

-- Norman Stone Pearn and Vernon Barlow, Quest for Sheba, 1937.

Comments

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

I won't say that about the culture of Islam, but it sounds like an apt description of many fundamentalists of my own faith. Unfortunately, they include the President.

[manomano.livejournal.com]

I'm always facinated by the things that claim to be "unchanging". I know this is a bad stereotype of Islam. And there is a large element among Islamic scholars that see themselves as fundamentalists. And of course, as with fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Islam today is very different from fundamentalist Islam from say 1937.