![]() ![]() It sowed the seeds of understanding the middle east in my mind. ![]() In it, he gave a sweeping history of the world using the east as the central point. Some years back, I read the book "The Silk Road" by Peter Frankopan. When we visited the Dubai Expo venue, we were taken through these large statues of Islamic Scholars who contributed immensely to global knowledge and history. I read that the Prince built a Church as he was building a Mosque. Then in Dubai, I saw a city that was clearly Islamic- everywhere you went there was a mosque, yet there seemed to be an allowance to be whatever you wanted to be and also importantly, unprecedented economic development. ![]() ![]() I don't know of any other country that has effectively fought terrorism like that country. In Egypt, I saw a country with a 96% Muslim population that had stamped out terrorism. My sympathy for understanding Islam was fueled when I visited Egypt and Dubai. A big stumbling block in our understanding is violence. Everyone can have their religion and then we can still live in peace and trust each other. Christians and Muslims have always held each other suspiciously, but my instinct tells me that it doesn't have to be that way. My curiosity about Islam has never been satisfied. One of the tragedies of the religious struggles in Nigeria, between Islam and Christianity is that both religions don't even understand each other. ![]()
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