Gutenberg and the Date Palm

An interesting view into the reasons why the Muslim world has not progressed with the rest of the world.

FROM ISLAMWATCH.ORG:
Gutenberg and the Date Palm

by Warner MacKenzie
21 Sep, 2007
During the Taleban rule in Afghanistan it was difficult to ignore the irony that, despite the banning of everything “modern” and “infidel”, the Toyota pick-up truck and the AK-47 seemed to warrant a special dispensation. Television sets, cassette players, radios, and even kites were sought out and enthusiastically destroyed as un-Islamic symbols of evil Western influence, but not however, the Taleban’s indispensable satellite phones. The taleban era was held up as an example of how an ideal Islamic state should look and function; which gives me cause to ponder just how those who crave a reconstructed seventh century Islamic caliphate, would structure their proposed utopia; the nitty-gritty if you will, of what qualifies as Islamically ‘acceptable’, or alternatively, that which would be subject to strictly enforced bans in everyday caliphate life.
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