Good to see you, Mary Anne!

Christianity has done all this, but has had the great good fortune to be defanged by a secular society, so some distance can be put between politics and theology. Islam is still grappling with this problem.

Yes, Islam is still grappling with this problem.. Islam has a people, even though they are spread all over the world, the ones that are suffering the most, guilty or not are in the middle east.

The Koran is not a rule book, but a religious work. Think "Bible", not "Constitution". You can justify anything with the Bible. Including being condemned as unclean for wearing cotton-polyester blend clothing.

Exactly! So, a Constitution is in order then? Maybe something in the lines of the understanding that the EU countries have. I hope it will include the Middle Eastern (soon-to-be, hopefully) states somehow.

Marcia