All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

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