would you peoples be in agreeance that the introduction of the internet on a global scale is historically parallel to the introduction to the Printing Press during the Middle Ages?
concider that after the printing press... people could actually own a copy of thieir own Bible... thus being to make their own interpretations of thing... no to mention all of the other writting of the time that spread around and inluenced society at that time.. SHortly afterward.... the Protestant Reformation happened... once the Church could no longer hold the population under it's sway as before.
now concider the internet... obviously the world is now able to share ideas and thoughts at an exponentially higher rate then ever before in history. People have blogs, share ideas over forums.... can spread thier religious and social values, and debate them....
Now the real point I'm trying to make with this is in regard to Islam.
Many people say that Islam is getting worse and worse, by way of Muslims seemingly becoming more extreme.... but I really doubt that this is the case.... We only see waht's in front of our faces.... The problems that are occuring now are the result of hundred of years of Western colonialism and exploitation of the Mid-East.... Religion just happens to be the wrapping that the package of retribution comes in..
So more and more we are indeed seeing an increased number of Muslims condemning the violent interpretations of Islamic extremism.... somthing that I believe NEver would have happened before the Information Age... Suddenly people are able to share their ideas and form their own opinions and interpretation about religion..
So would this mean that some sort of Islamic Reformation may be in the making? and if so.... should one be worried... due the past history of such things.. such as the slew of religious wars that occured following the Protestant Reformation?
just some brain cud.