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Casey O'Rourke
History of Arabs
9-28-06
Capitalism and Islamic Economics
Sitting at a train station one evening while biding my time until I could bide some more time on the slow train back west, two Muslim men kneeled down near me to pray. These two men of the Qur'an wore beards and their traditional clothing, a site I had grown accustomed to during my brief stay in Istanbul, but during the middle of their prayers one man stopped to answer and talk on his cell phone for several minutes. I did not mean to pass judgment on the man but I could not help but see the clash of two worlds represented in this man. The differences of nations have become more and more apparent as the many countries of the world grow more and more interdependent on each other. Pushing this globalization forward at the rapid pace we see today are the efforts of capitalism and its insatiable appetite for larger markets. This effort being aggressively pursued has not only brought Coca-Cola and McDonalds to......

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