Is there a single civilised Muslim majority country?
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Re: Is there a single civilised Muslim majority country?
I was about to suggest Egypt as a possible, but then read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#Human_rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#Human_rights
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Burkina Faso?
Niger?
Senegal?
Niger?
Senegal?
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How about the former Soviet states?
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Re: Is there a single civilised Muslim majority country?
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Is there a single civilised Muslim majority country?
Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and you get a good idea how quickly fundamentalist Islamic clerics can turn general Islamic practice from relatively liberal to dogmatic extremism. Also, how quickly during civil upheaval and war people who are displaced and starving change their ethics and lose altruism.Svartalf wrote:given the extreme oppressive attitude the muslims have on the other minorities, that's one of the first I eliminated right after saudi arabia and pakistan...maiforpeace wrote:Just a guess...Malaysia?
My best guess would be a country in subsaharan west or central Africa where the muslims are mixed with other faiths and far enough from Egypt that they have mellowed out (obviously not Nigeria)
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So Suriname then.Robert_S wrote:From:
http://www.meforum.org/1921/the-economi ... -countries
there is a PDF that has a nice chart.

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Re: Is there a single civilised Muslim majority country?
The very concept of wanting to be labelled a "muslim" country is the antithesis of civilised, enlightenment values.
As would wanting to be called a "christian" country.
Secularism is vital...
As would wanting to be called a "christian" country.
Secularism is vital...
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Re: Is there a single civilised Muslim majority country?
Once religion is out of the way, there's only that feeble disease of nationalism...
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Re: Is there a single civilised Muslim majority country?
The OP says "Muslim majority country". 24 of the 47 countries in this list are either secular or have no official state religion.JimC wrote:The very concept of wanting to be labelled a "muslim" country is the antithesis of civilised, enlightenment values.
As would wanting to be called a "christian" country.
Secularism is vital...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mu ... _countries
Also... there are countries that have a state religion that are in practice secular, such as the UK. I suppose it works the other way too though.
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By 'muslim majority' country I assumed the OP meant countries where the majority of people consider themselves muslims?
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Yar... that's what I assumed too.Charlou wrote:By 'muslim majority' country I assumed the OP meant countries where the majority of people consider themselves muslims?
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Fuck! Howard insisted that Australia was a christian country, and we voted in a way that he was our Prime Minister for twelve years. Just how civilised are we to have kept voting for a party that does things like spending millions of dollars to pay the Catholic Church to provide abortion counselling and millions more on "spiritual" school counsellors? The cunt was whiteanting secularism from go to woe, and we elected his party to government and then re-elected it three more times!JimC wrote:The very concept of wanting to be labelled a "muslim" country is the antithesis of civilised, enlightenment values.
As would wanting to be called a "christian" country.
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I'd not surprised if Senegal or Burkina were our golden egg... though Sénégal is marred by the talibé phenomenon : children indentured to marabouts (holy men/teachers) who are supposed to be educated in koran schools, but actually spend a lot more time begging or otherwise making their master money than studying.Pappa wrote:Burkina Faso?
Niger?
Senegal?
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Hirsi ali is from Somalia, a place in Eastern Africa and definitely not anything I suggested... far too close to Egypt and extremist influences coming from the Arabic peninsula and Pakistan via the Indian ocean.Charlou wrote:Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and you get a good idea how quickly fundamentalist Islamic clerics can turn general Islamic practice from relatively liberal to dogmatic extremism. Also, how quickly during civil upheaval and war people who are displaced and starving change their ethics and lose altruism.Svartalf wrote:given the extreme oppressive attitude the muslims have on the other minorities, that's one of the first I eliminated right after saudi arabia and pakistan...maiforpeace wrote:Just a guess...Malaysia?
My best guess would be a country in subsaharan west or central Africa where the muslims are mixed with other faiths and far enough from Egypt that they have mellowed out (obviously not Nigeria)
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