Posts by Nightcrawler

Quote: Originally Posted by segovius The marriage thing is pure insanity. If Adam and eve were married then so is everyone who lives with his girlfriend or boyfriend. No priest sanctified their union. They had no ceremony or paper -...

It is being reported that behind closed doors the US-administration is negotiating with Suleiman, some opposition-groups and the military to create an interim-government and to force Mubarak to stand down now. It would obviously ease...

The military told the demonstrators to go home, that their demands became known and that they should return to normal life. The dilemma for the demonstrators is that going home with Mubarak still in power could prove fatal, since the...

I overheard someone from the egyptian army telling the BBC that like with the assassination of Sadat the second row of the army will solve the crisis, and that then the military will take things over and prepare for democratic...

Quote: Originally Posted by segovius I don't think there is an obligation unless one takes a rather rigid view and adheres to later judicial rulings of certain schools of thought. Certainly it does not derive from the Qur'an and is...

Quote: Originally Posted by segovius One thing about this though: this girl seems to be 12. She does not have to wear a headscarf even in the most fundie cultures. Why is it an issue? The obligation to wear the headscarf is bound to...

Quote: Originally Posted by FloorJack Bashar says it's time for reform. I guess those open elections and political process in Iraq has wet the beak of the arab street. They need to slake their thirst now. It's something a rabid...

Quote: Originally Posted by segovius Yes, but the difference is the speed and amount of inventions which is unrivalled in all times and the communistic states in the last hundred years did not come forth with many inventions, if any at...

Quote: Originally Posted by segovius If that were the case then I would say fine...get rid of Semitic religions. Put it this way: I believe in God but my Islam is not the Islam of some conservative bigoted Mullah. He believes pretty...

Quote: Originally Posted by segovius Capitalism has controlled the world for the last 200 years. So of course all inventions would stem from it. But they built on early developments - there were a couple of thousand years before...