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Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.

~ Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis Culture Cultures History Islam Mankind

It is often said that Islam is an egalitarian religion. There is much truth in this assertion. If we compare Islam at the time of its advent with the societies that surrounded it—the stratified feudalism of Iran and the caste system of India to the east, the privileged aristocracies of both Byzantine and Latin Europe to the west—the Islamic dispensation does indeed bring a message of equality. Not only does Islam not endorse such systems of social differentiation; it explicitly and resolutely rejects them. The actions and utterances of the Prophet, the honored precedents of the early rulers of Islam as preserved by tradition, are overwhelmingly against privilege by descent, by birth, by status, by wealth, or even by race, and insist that rank and honor are determined only by piety and merit in Islam.

~ Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis Egalitarian History Islam Merit Muslim Piety Racism Religion

As Osama bin Laden puts it: In this final phase of the ongoing struggle, the world of the infidels was divided between two superpowers--the United States and the Soviet Union. Now we have defeated and destroyed the more difficult and the more dangerous of the two. Dealing with the pampered and effeminate Americans will be easy.

~ Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis Islam

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

~ Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis America Foreign Policy Of The Us United States

Western technology made slavery unnecessary, Western ideas made it intolerable.

~ Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis Slavery West Western Civilization
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