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smallpox · 05-11-2008, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by orange dave

I think you're forgetting an Intifada or two...you don't think those are important?

The Intifada is not a state, the state was only sponsoring it for its own purposes, not for religious ideology

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To the extent this is true, it's only because most of the states in question are not democratic. Actually, though I'm not an expert in Islam, I know some quite moderate brands of Islam do consider the state to be in integral organ of their religion. If you have the attention span (a comment on the article, not you) check this out Mohamed Aslam Haneef, "Can There Be an Economics Based on Religion? The Case of Islamic Economics", Post-Autistic Economics Review, issue 34 [Anonymoused] - through the excessively technical language you can find some out some interesting things about what the author claims is an Islamic worldview (I wouldn't be able to verify it, but it seems credible.)

Every attempt at Islamic law has failed, basically any ideology of law has failed except for the one ideology that accounts the individuality of each cases and the need for judicial discretion by an clear authority (the basis of positive law).
Islam might have a different worldview, but it needs to change into a more functional one. I'm not targeting Islam, or saying that Islamic people are wrong, everyone had to reform, including European Christians to the social axioms of liberalism. Normally this would be done by several entry and exit of competitive firms into the world market, but the Middle East is plagued by a resource curse. Their large reserve of oil means that regardless of what half ass economic policies the state initiates (highways in Saudi Arabia) it has the money to ride out its mistakes.