>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/750501.html
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>The time has come to admit that the mother of all ills in the Arab world is the absence of a secular alternative that has the power to offer people a different way of thinking. An option that is an alternative to the one offered by political Islam. It is not the Israeli occupation that needs to be ended, but rather the fanatic religious occupation of the Arab-Muslim intellect, which is blocking the masses from the pleasure of thinking.
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Consider the contributions up until recent times of the Islamic world to culture, society, and academics and look at it today.