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Category talk:Muslim-Majority Countries (view source)
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, 13:22, June 23, 2008clarifying with an analogy to Western Civilization and Christianity
:Islam is a religion, not a civilisation. Muslims are those who follow the Islamic religion. I think what Bugler was trying to say is that just because a county has a dominant Muslim/Islamic population it is not necessarily Islamic in that its government and legal system may be secular. [[User:StatsMsn|StatsMsn]] 10:03, 22 June 2008 (EDT)
:Islam is a religion, not a civilisation. Muslims are those who follow the Islamic religion. I think what Bugler was trying to say is that just because a county has a dominant Muslim/Islamic population it is not necessarily Islamic in that its government and legal system may be secular. [[User:StatsMsn|StatsMsn]] 10:03, 22 June 2008 (EDT)
::[[Arnold Toynbee]] identified an "[[Islamic Civilization]]" based on [[Islam]]. It will help our readers to distinguish between Islam (the religion of [[Muslim]]s) and the cultural and political aspects of the civilization based on that religion.
::Perhaps an analogy will help. "[[Western Christendom]]" or [[Western Civilization]] is based on [[Christianity]]. We have separate articles for Western Civ. and for the religion of Christians. Okay? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 09:22, 23 June 2008 (EDT)