To Octavio

Submitted by faqi (United States), Mar 20, 2007 at 01:45

Octavio, ... How on earth do you plan to integrate the Muslims in Europe with the indigenous population is beyond me. They have never integrated into any other culture, they just destroy the existing culture & take over, as what happened to the Copts of Egypt, The Zorastrians of Persia, The Buddhists of Afghanistan, the Hindus and Buddhists of Bangladesh, Indonesia & Malaysia,the Christians of the Balkans and so forth. If you mean that as integration, then it would be a sad day for Europe.

Islam's philosophy is 180 degree turn from our own. Here are the five major branches of our philosophy compared/contrasted with the Muslims: Our ethics = life; theirs = spread of Islam. Our epistemology = reason; theirs = revelation. Our metaphysics = existence follows natural law, is predictable and intellectually graspable; theirs = existence is incomprehensible and unpredictable, because it depends entirely on the whim of the micro-managerial Allah.

Our esthetics = portrayal of values, including human life; their esthetics = prohibition against portrayal of values, especially human life. Our politics = respect for individual rights; theirs = totalitarianism.Our laws= man made; theirs made by the so called Allah. So how on earth do you plan to reconcile such diametrically opposed philosophies - the only result will be; one will have to destroy the other or get rid of them out of Europe ,as they did in Spain in the 15th century. Eventually, that will be the most probable answer once Europe wakes up from its slumber.

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