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Pahlavan
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Man’s hubris is such that he believes that there is some value in projecting far into the future the judgment of an unknown humanity based on a selective “look-back” at one narrow aspect of history.
My wife’s father witnessed in his lifetime the Wright Brothers’ first flight and man’s first walk on the moon - all in less than a century. We know that no one at that time envisaged the technological advances that would occur in less than 100 years or any of the great wars we witnessed including the Holocaust perpetrated on the Armenian and Assyrian Christians by Muslims in WWI or on the Jews by Nazis in WWII. So, any effort to make long-range predictions is a sterile endeavor.
Man is conditioned by his time and place. The reality of life and the mores of 400 years ago were not conditioned entirely by religion just as religious thought was not immune to the cultures and societies within which it operated.
The one constant in history is man. The one thing we know for certain is that man’s nature is sinful. Therefore, the history of man is as much about his successes as it is about his failures. Man’s inhumanity to man knows no bounds and no boundaries or borders and can be found in each and every religion.
So, where will Islam be in 400 years? While I don’t know, I can hope that it’s doctrine of forced conversion, the type of martyrdom we witness with terrorist acts, and other doctrines that denigrate non-Muslims will be seen as an aberration just as we see the acts of some of our co-religionists in the past as evil and unworthy by our understanding today.
My wife’s father witnessed in his lifetime the Wright Brothers’ first flight and man’s first walk on the moon - all in less than a century. We know that no one at that time envisaged the technological advances that would occur in less than 100 years or any of the great wars we witnessed including the Holocaust perpetrated on the Armenian and Assyrian Christians by Muslims in WWI or on the Jews by Nazis in WWII. So, any effort to make long-range predictions is a sterile endeavor.
Man is conditioned by his time and place. The reality of life and the mores of 400 years ago were not conditioned entirely by religion just as religious thought was not immune to the cultures and societies within which it operated.
The one constant in history is man. The one thing we know for certain is that man’s nature is sinful. Therefore, the history of man is as much about his successes as it is about his failures. Man’s inhumanity to man knows no bounds and no boundaries or borders and can be found in each and every religion.
So, where will Islam be in 400 years? While I don’t know, I can hope that it’s doctrine of forced conversion, the type of martyrdom we witness with terrorist acts, and other doctrines that denigrate non-Muslims will be seen as an aberration just as we see the acts of some of our co-religionists in the past as evil and unworthy by our understanding today.
. Well public opinion can be hard to change, and there has been a lot of propaganda involved in forming that opinion so its obviously not as bad as prejudiced action