OT - Khadaffy's regime falling

[95th Rifleman]

Originally Posted by headquarters

Also I would like to point out that Islam is a religion and not a culture. Moslems are as diverse as most other people that adhere to other world religions - spanning from Indonesia to Norway.

That point can be argued. In some countries Islam IS a culture and totaly integrated into the cultural identity of that nation just as Judaism in Israel and Catholicism in Rome.

[Mohoender]

Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman

That point can be argued. In some countries Islam IS a culture and totaly integrated into the cultural identity of that nation just as Judaism in Israel and Catholicism in Rome.

I agree to that but it is in no way a monolitic culture.

[95th Rifleman]

Originally Posted by Mohoender

I agree to that but it is in no way a monolitic culture.

Very true. Arabic islam is very different to Chinese islam or bosnian islam.

[Targan]

And Shiites have some pretty major theological differences with Sunnis. Then there are your radical jihadist Wahabis, and they all consider Sufis to be freaky heretics... etc, etc.

[simonmark6]

I was invited to a talk by an Iman by some of my pupils and discovered that they were from a small Pakistani sect that actually believed that the Messiah had come and had been born to their sect about a hundred years ago. Other followers of Islam in the audience were as amazed as I was, there seem to be lots of little sects around, maybe not as many as there are Christian sects, but enough to stop it being monolithic.