People in my TL are flipping out about this, but there's a lot of validity to this thesis--although the essay fails to make the case. 1/https://twitter.com/libertarianism/status/905145507059834881 …
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Modern Muslim states are mostly awful, and many historical Islamic empires were monstrous (eg the Mughals). But then there's Somalia. 3/
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Somalia is a joke to (racist, ignorant) authoritarians in the west, but prior to being conquered by Britain, Italy and Islamists,,, 4/
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...it was a stable, stateless, polycentric nation of traditional law for centuries, like medieval Ireland and Iceland. Worth studying! 5/
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There's an anarchist thread to be teased out of Islamic tradition. "Post-left" anarchist Hakim Bey, author of https://hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont 6/
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...draws extensively on heretical traditions in Persian and central Asian Islam. And he inspired Burning Man! 7/
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The dreadful state of modern Islam is largely due to giving its worst elements many billions of dollars of oil money to prosletyze with. 8/
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It's worthwhile to be skeptical of Salafi propaganda efforts, but history contains multitudes. 9/9
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i don't completely disagree, but, i think this argument inevitably converges on "true Islam has never been tried"
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Yeah but "Medieval Somalia" is a response to both "true Islam has never been tried" and "true anarchy has never been tried"!
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Plus, most of what we think of as Islamic Law reflects a pre-modern situation where overall extent of state regulation was much smaller.
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In this way, lots of, say, old customary Germanic law also look quite attractive to modern-day libertarians.
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