Look at the Islamic world since 1960,and you see various countries that were formerly more Westernized that have gone Islamic fundamentalist
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If everyone agrees that they're Muslim & that their morality comes from Islam, then the holiest people are those practicing the purest Islam
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Without modern communication, localities were more likely to diverge on what "true Islam" was, but over the last 50 years there's been a lot
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of convergence. Modern communication also helps increase the speed of the signalling process. So Muslims have been more and more into true
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Islam based on the early texts, and this results in things like ISIS (eg beheading is very much part of original Islam).
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Almost the entire Islamic world has been in this memevirus vortex in favor of increasingly pure Islam. But is this true on the very edges?
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It appears to be this way in Indonesia and Africa (eg Boko Haram), and probably Bosnia as well.What about Kazakhstan?Will they succumb, too?
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The best thing about purity spirals is that -- as a matter of mathematical necessity -- they come to end. Not that it will be pretty.
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