... However ironical you may find it, fundamentalism is simply better at modernity. There will continue to be more of it.
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Replying to @Outsideness
The ones you see, ofc, being the ones that are available to you via the mass media. Ask yourself if that is likely to be representative...
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And the vast majority of fundamentalist foot soldiers have limited exposure to actual scripture, and little to wider Islamic discourse
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And the proposition that they are "better at modernity" seems to have very little evidence to support it (even if the phrase had meaning)
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Replying to @mcantelon @Outsideness
So you define "better at modernity" as "capable of replacement breeding"? That doesn't seem to have anything to do with modernity.
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Replying to @mcantelon @Outsideness
Sub-replacement birth rates "problem of modernity" + fundamentalists "better at modernity" = fundamentalists with even lower birth rates
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Replying to @mcantelon @Outsideness
So you think ISIS are living under conditions of modernity? Usually fundamentalism is understood as a response to and rejection of modernity
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Better at modernity because modernity was inaugurated by (Protestant) scriptural fundamentalism (which is robust under atomization).
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Replying to @Outsideness @mcantelon
There's too many unexamined assumptions in that sentence for it to take any of the weight of your argument. Unpack it.
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