Re: The Prospects of a Talibanized Pakistan
And that was all before eye-opening scientific revolution of the last 500 years.
The Mayans figured out the earth revolved around the sun before Galileo's grandfather was born. The Egyptians did so much in the way of agriculture development and basic architecture. The Greeks a very very religious society developed modern mathematics you are taught between grades 6 and 8 in any system around the world.
Shamraz so how has that changed in the current order? The US clergy is still in bed with the senators and presidents. To date there has only been one Catholic president of the us. The past 50 odd presidents have all be protestants. The white house has a chapel built into it. In France the President always goes for Easter Mass. In Russia, the entire ruling politburo goes for Orthodox Christian masses and celebrates the days of certain Russian saints. Italy is beholden to the Vatican are as a majority of the Iron curtain states like Poland and Romania.
There is not a single country in the democratic west which does not have the clergy influencing them.
Freedom is a separate issue. Some civilizations like the Greeks, Roman and Ottoman, were based on absolute freedom. Islamic empires provided the simple freedoms we enjoy today. Freedom of religion, after the Spanish Inquisition, all the Jews lived in the Islamic world for 200 years before going back to Europe.
As for it not working. In 1992 - with the Masstrict treat - the EU proved two things. The concept of the nation state is dead. Only 50 years old, but still dead. ASEAN, ASEAN+3 APEC, EU, Mercosur et al are economic unions with one simple policy. Together we will do better. That is point number two. We are humans, our boundaries are artificial. We can do better as a collective union.
While the Ummah defines itself by religion, these entities take economics and trade as their defining mater. And in both cases it works. Globalization has aided in making the simple point that was made by our Prophet and his followers. We are one people.