Amazing how culturally dominant ideas & discourses suddenly have no impact at all &all abt the individual when it comes to Islamic extremism
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You lose credibility if you claim that discourses must be closely policed in some cultures & subcultures coz they control how ppl think...
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In cultures you want to critique but suggesting they influence violent extremism in cultures u don't want critiqued is unreasonable bigotry
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And the problem works the other way round, obv. If you insist that the worst Islamic doctrine dictates the values of every Muslim
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...you can't then criticise PoMos on this & claim yourself to be able to resist the worst aspects of any ideology you subscribe to.
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It should be clear to any reasonable person that humans are influenced by common moral emotions,cultural ideas & individual thinking/traits
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But to do that, we have to engage with & critique ideas. A wide variety of them including religious ones. Ideas are what can change.
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