Long suspected that hijab/niqab was a long-term strategy by MB to force no-win internal fights in the West. https://religional.org/2016/04/25/french-connection-part-ii-radicalization-laicite-and-the-islamic-veil/ …
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(Hijab is an ancient Muslim tradition that goes back a whole 50 years, to a specific ultraconservative and repressive reactionary movement.)
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https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism … (scheduled for publicity in about two weeks, but relevant…)
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I particularly relate to how it's hard to participate in ritual in fundamentalism. I called myself a "Christian anarchist";
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I wanted to make sense of why I was sure that there was a God but hated the hypocrisy of church folks.
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reading your book helped me attempt the complete stance. Reading this is really interesting.. Wonder what is possible..
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“Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity” is a tough read, but possibly useful/relevant.
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thank you for the recommendation; I will look into it!
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I summarized it here: https://vividness.live/2015/04/04/ritual-vs-mentalism/ … (and referenced it in a footnote of the fundamentalism page)
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