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Two different ones. The first BA is from Rutgers. The second from a smaller state university. We went over this last time and every told me it was stupid to do so I don't expect any differently this time.

I literally only needed 12 more credits. It is Thursday night. It is either take a class on some subject or smoke weed and play insurgency.

I get to read interesting things, meet young people, and get out of my apartment for awhile.

I would suggest you give it a try while you are still young and can dedicate a few hours a week to doing something like that. Hell just enroll at your local community college and take some language learning classes.

what kind of career do you see yourself having?

Take it to the insurgency thread.

I am pretty far into the Huntington book. It reminds me why I studied history instead of Poli Sci. Can I tell you a secret? These broad political philosophy study things bore me to tears. I rather read a twice as long history of some obscure war in a place I don't care about than read about what the ideal of military civil relations is like.

some high-culture literary analysis.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mi … h-this-man

was this review written just for you dilbert? jesus christ it's prescient.

lol. so the other side are ideologues but your guy is a realist.

bearing in mind you can find multiple sources, from oxford historians through to the journal press, criticising ferguson's 'history'.

bearing in mind ferguson literally wrote a fawning biography of henry kissinger.

i love how the conservative xenophobes always hide under the labels of 'its commonsense' and 'we're realistic'.

i suppose you've read a lot of al-ghazali or averroes?

foundational philosophers who contributed a great deal to western philosophy. proof of an open, engaged, and textual islamic culture. the latter is responsible for saving a great deal of western culture and philosophical heritage from the oblivion of northern european barbarians who would have burned and destroyed it all (quite ironic considering they are your posterboys).

moderate intellectual islam no longer exists? you do know how many muslims there are on the planet, right?

i bet you're around a lot of muslims dilbert.

um, the world's largest muslim country is religiously moderate. or what about malaysia?

i suppose you have to define 'moderate' first, though. and yours no doubt means 'conforms to western liberal democratic principles', which aren't universal.

uziq wrote:

um, the world's largest muslim country is religiously moderate. or what about malaysia?

i suppose you have to define 'moderate' first, though. and yours no doubt means 'conforms to western liberal democratic principles', which aren't universal.

Malaysia previously jailed a political opposition cos 'sodomy'.

Not to mention they are quicker to call bengladeshi muslim immigrants 'native malays' than the Chinese who've been there for hundred of years.

When you get classed as a 'native malay' aka bumiputra you get a lot of benefits aka not being discriminated over university applications and applying for govt jobs.

When did I make a statement about "the majority of its citizens" being relevant?

There are moderate Christian countries, where Christianity plays no role in government or foreign policy, there aren't any moderate Muslim countries.