Thursday, March 06, 2003

Things that make you go Hmmmmm........

I caught the slightest bit of Thomas Friedman of the New York Times (he's their good columnist) on C-Span giving a speech before the Center for Advanced International Studies. He had a really insightful observation on Muslims: he said Muslims view Islam as (in computer terms) "God 3.0" while Christianity is "God 2.0" and Judaism is "God 1.0". In Friedman's words, Muslims can't understand why their new and improved version doesn't seem to work as well (socio-economically) than the old version, so they're blaming the competitors (other religions) and the programmers (Muslims who "corrupt" the program).

I'm going to have to look for the transcript tomorrow. If anyone finds it, can you forward it on?

Update: It was the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins. No transcript on the site, but I'll check back later.

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