AN ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION ?

Regarding religion as the foundation of civilizations is certainly not a novel or recent idea. For thousands of years religion has formed (and to a large extent still does form) the basis of an individual’s identity. Even today, roughly two-thirds of the population of a traditionally secular Islamic country say they are first Muslim and then Turkish rather than the other way around. It was roughly a millennium ago when the Crusaders risked their lives in “infidel lands” in the name of God and Jesus. After more than a thousand years, and in the same lands, Palestinian youths explode themselves almost daily without the blink of an eye, this time in name of Allah and Mohammed. Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose, as the French saying goes!