The man who bought me dinner last night was telling me about his trip to Sarajevo, of how it was on the one hand full of mosques, but also full of liberated Muslim women. I have been going for quite a while now that it is perfectly possible to adapt Islam to British customs, which does not mean stonings, beheadings and manual amputation as well as women in black beetling about looking out at us with only their eyes showing, causing fear and loathing ...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030818/whitmore
Why can we not have a debate on that?
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009
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