I'm not talking about plausibility (I find it hilarious that we are even discussing plausibility when it comes to religious devotion). Also, I'm seeing two different threads here, you're saying the issue is islam, he's saying it's arab culture. What's the truth?
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @woke8yearold
Islam hijacked Arab culture, and has subsequently acted as a planetary vector for Arab culture.
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Replying to @Outsideness @woke8yearold
And when did that hijacking occur? It was in the 70's and 80's with the death of arab nationalism and the fighting spirit of the ba'athist movement. I urge you to look at that video i linked earlier, of Nasser, the leader of the arab world, mocking the muslim brotherhood for
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @woke8yearold
There was a very brief socialist-secular backlash against traditional Islam (based on its radical inconsistency with modernization). You're blowing this blip out of all proportion. ...
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... Read Churchill on Islam. His judgment hasn't dated in the slightest.
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... As soon as the fundies said: "Look, we can just buy modernity with oil money, and still stick to the old Jihad," they swept the board.
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Replying to @Outsideness @woke8yearold
What an odd reading of islam in the middle east, when almost every islamic insurgency has precisely played itself as a reaction to modernity
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @woke8yearold
"Modernity" meaning weapons and social media accounts.
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Replying to @Outsideness @woke8yearold
For a supposed neo-reactionary, you have a very positive outlook on modernity.
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That's what the "neo-" means.
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Replying to @Outsideness @woke8yearold
yeah, washed up and rehashed with less substance.
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