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Thanks salim. I'm always interested to read what ex-muslims, rational critics of islam, have to say about this religion (it was one such book, ibn Warraq's 'Why I am not a muslim', which radically changed my view about it some years ago; before I believed, as many others, in the PC 'narrative' that mainly factors outside islam created the modern islamic radical). The extreme resistence of muslims (with exceptions of course) to the values of Enlightenment (most notably full secularism) should indeed be seeked inside islam and islamic related culture, it's no accident of history that only in the muslim world still survive religious constitutions and that they see this as being 'human rights'. Let's hope however that muslims will finally be able to create a real muslim Enlightenment (islam relegated at the level of the individual, sharia out of public life etc). I know that this is very optimistic in the light of current evidence but I don't think it is an impossible task.


Iranium - islamic radicalism (arguably the natural product of islamic traditions) is a huge threat for the entire planet