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I saw that picture and couldn't resist a post :P
What do I care what Muslim countries are doing? I've read a bit about Islam and this stuff comes up. Very interesting religion. But I guess I'm reading for those who are not quite so Taliban. You have to remember that at the time Muslims in India were among the most progressive they have ever been. Something had to trickle to those Afghans. That's my excuse.
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Kho said
I saw that picture and couldn't resist a post :PWhat do I care what Muslim countries are doing? I've read a bit about Islam and this stuff comes up. Very interesting religion. But I guess I'm reading for those who are not quite so Taliban. You have to remember that at the time Muslims in India were among the most progressive they have ever been. Something had to trickle to those Afghans. That's my excuse.


Sharia isn't a flexible world-view that changes over time, and it's basically the exact opposite of 'progressive'. If you wanted to create a multi-cultural nanny state with empowered women, you probably shouldn't have picked Afghanistan.

But that's just my assessment. Maybe nobody cared about Islam in Afghanistan in the early twentieth century.
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Of course it is. Look at Christian countries. Wherever you go, the churches are built in the European manner, the clothes of the clergy are the European ones. Converts had to become Christian and thus assimilate to a more Western way of life, where Western = Christian.
If you go to countries where Muslims spread, you will find that the mosques are not built in the Arab architecture, but in the local architecture, peoples clothes didn't suddenly change and become Arabised. Muslim =/= Arab. Islam is all about flexibility and accommodation. Anybody who knows an ounce about Sharia law would now that it is all about flexibility and interpretations.
Thankfully I've read a few law books and have gained a general understanding of Common and Shariah law, and Shariah is anything but inflexible. If anything, its flexibility is the reason you get extremists - they get to bend it so much.
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I would also like to add that during the 19th century and early 20th century Islam experienced a 'renaissance' of progressive, new interpretations of Sharia and Islam in general. Progress and Pan-Islamism were all the talk before the rise of the Saudis and there Wahabism and all the Pan-Arabism replaced Pan-Islamism.
You just need to take a look at such scholars as Mohammed Iqbal, Malik bin Nabi, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Syed Ahmad Khan and others.
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If you want to have a debate, let's talk in PM's or the IRC instead of the OOC thread.
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How goes the Great War everyone??
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The war is going really well for my country,
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I sent my orders the day of the last update, Dutch. Vaexa must not have sent them to you.
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I sent my orders to MagnificentOne.
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Nex: I'll get around to kicking her ample posterior today then.

Outcast: Regulars still go to me.
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Right, gotcha.
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So is there an idea on when the war will be over?
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When the Entente falls.
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It's hard to tell at the point in time, I think it will be going on for a while.
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Some interesting photos taken in Russia in the 1910's. They were black and white, but using the negatives they were able to add colors.

http://imgur.com/a/cxMZT#0
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Produkin-Gorskii was an absolute rockstar.
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After seeing him on that handcar...agreed.
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@jiwon those pictures are just...amazing. Brilliant.
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Heyitsjiwon said
Some interesting photos taken in Russia in the 1910's. They were black and white, but using the negatives they were able to add colors.


Those are beautiful on multiple levels.
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