Can pure Islamic thinking only exist in underdeveloped or repressive environments?

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Re: Can pure Islamic thinking only exist in underdeveloped or repressive environments

@ravage

you guys are the ones who say I said something about being civilized. each of these terms developed, civilized and modern means something different and they are not interchangeable. it has been clarified in the thread since posting that I am using developed and modern with a particular sociological meaning, as opposed to just meaning advanced. development means development in the sense that countries today are categorized as developing, developed and modern in the sense of the sort of social structures and values that have emerged in the last two centuries, that are associated with the developed world today.

‘pure’ Islamic thinking is referring to thinking where judgments about good and bad, legal and illegal would be made solely on the basis of Islam, as opposed to my hypothesis, which is that in those in modern (in the sense described) environments think with two different systems of thought and values, which are then reconciled in some subjective way.

ok fair enough… that’s the easy way out. i let you go.