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From: nsabha@orion.oac.uci.edu (Nael Sabha)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: 1800 thoughts on ISLAM
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Date: 4 Mar 90 17:08:36 GMT
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Asalm Al-Akoum

I recently came across a thought provoking 
paragraph from the book "Democracy in America"
by Alexis Tocqueville written in 1800's that I thought might
be of some interest to this newsgroup. This is required reading
for some 500 freshman here.



"Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious 
doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and
scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with
the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond
that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything.
That alone, amoung a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam
will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and
democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all
others."	(Page 445)
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