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Key principles that distinguish the Muslim world and western cultures 6 Articles

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    by Celine Leduc

    Prior to writing on the key principles that distinguish the Muslim world and Western culture is to look at the two questions separately. It is difficult and even impossible to compare a religion to a culture, because both...read more

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    by Charles Evans

    The day that a group of power hungry men took over the holy land created a schism that reverberates today. The message was that God had no favorites left behind by Adam and Eve. The human equation is equal worldwide: God...read more

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    by Royce Radcliffe

    I know this is going to seem like an unusual theory to posit in an article under the "Religion" heading, but I do not think that religion is the key distinguishing characteristic between western cultures and the Muslim wor...read more

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    by Alan Fernald

    The tenets upon which the religion of Islam is founded, are very similar to those principles upon which Christianity itself was founded. The principles of a single supreme being, hospitality to strangers, a dependence on ...read more

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    by D. Keith Shurtleff

    In the eyes of much of the Muslim World, the West, or at least America, is the Great Satan. How ironic, that a nation originally established on religious principles which were taught by Jesus, (a being the Muslims consid...read more

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    by Les Jacobs

    Western culture is primarily secular; the Muslim world is not. That is about the only blanket statement you can make about these two societies that would be mostly correct, but still it would not be wholly so. In the We...read more

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