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Originally posted by bilmore
I do see Islam as a code that dissuades from outward, material and technical achievement far more so than christianity, and most of the learned commentary I've seen either supports this view, or at the least doesn't refute it. For this reason, there is an economic handicap to traditional Islamic culture.
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Hunh? I fail to see how a society that managed to conquer as much of the known world as Alexander the Great, and whose achievements put the Christian West to shame for centuries, is inherently handicapped in relation to Christianity. If anything, it is handicapped in relation to secular modernity. In other words, your sources suck.
