” . . .one of the things that Islam helped do was to globalize the Arab tribal culture.”
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Not just “globalized it,” SACRALIZED it -making it the inerreant and unchanging word of Allah. This has happened with some of the very worst aspects of tribal/warrior culture, even slavery:
“…The main author of the Saudi religious curriculum expressed his unequivocal support for the legalization of slavery in one of his lectures recorded on a cassette and obtained exclusively by SIA news.
“Leading government cleric Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan is the author of the religious books currently used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the and in Saudi schools aboard – including those in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
“Slavery is a part of Islam,” he says in the tape, adding: “Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1018026/posts
