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Muslims Clash Over Oakland Liquor StoresSounds to me like they clashed with the alcoholic way of life. If they have no respect for the right to get drunk maybe they should move out of the country and go somewhere Muslim.
I wonder what the world would look like if we tried out a little experiment. Give every religious group, every religious person, a chance to create their perfect world some place. At first they'd have to write it up, how the state would operate and what culture would be like, how taxation would be collected and what the rules of imprisonment and banishment would be, and see what they look like. I imagine by and large, Muslim utopianism would look pretty ugly and stupid, and that women would all move away from it, at least the ones who aren't retarded (not that that matters under a burqa. Excuse me while I contemplate putting all retarded women in burqas just to piss off the Muslims. I'm starting to think I'm not a very nice person deep down.)
Christian utopianism would look a lot like, what, Utah? Of course by now there are so many kinds of Christians you'd have a stack a mile high of different ideas about what's right and wrong, at least in this country, and the dialogue would quickly degenerate into cable news.
There is no working utopia; the word itself is a reference to the Greek words ou-topos, meaning "no place", and eu-topos, meaning "good place". Here's Thomas More's original work, and here's a little historical background to put it into perspective.
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