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Old 08-14-2003, 06:45 AM   #29
Griff
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Originally posted by jaguar

I know i've been flitting in and out of this place all year but things have finalyl settled down a little and i tend to be in the same place for more than a week these days so expect more of the usual far-left-wing trash (although i'm going for a shooters licence, does that discredit me?) out of me - things are back to normal
I dunno wolf, armed leftists can be a source of concern.

I guess a big question is whether Islam was as big a factor in the (rise and) fall of Arab civilization as the Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc believed Catholicism was in the rise of the West. We tend to see Arab culture as Islamic culture but is that a broad generalization or just a clear view from the outside?
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