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Old 12-02-2005, 05:11 AM
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Default Re: Where You Were, I Was

"the reason Islamic societies have through many centuries tended towards totalitarian rule, and today so clearly do"

There are no Muslim states today that could remotely be characterised as totalitarian. The only ones in recent history that arguably could have were Iraq (which was a secular, non-Islamic state), and Taliban Afghanistan.
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