If you’re looking for factual information about the religion of Islam @YasMohammedxx is the greatest ex-Muslim source. I trust her. She’s fair and honest and still holds a deep love and respect for those suffering under its rule.
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It's a feedback loop. Islam is basically Arab tribalism codified into religious law, but made even worse by the self-serving agenda of its prophet. Arab Christians are still tribal, but not nearly as much.
Exactly. Cultures change over time, but they are restricted from progress when the education, government, social structures etc etc are all based on a 1400 yr old book.
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Yeah, but the tribalism is the core problem. Gender apartheid and burkas make sense when you're planning to marry off your daughter to a cousin to strengthen famimy blood ties and keeppossessions within the family
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I’m not disagreeing that tribalism is a problem. I’m disagreeing that Islam isn’t the problem. Islam is the reason why the tribalism persists. There are 22 Arab countries-their individual level of tribalism correlates directly to their level of Sharia. Islam fossilizes tribalism.
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I agree. There is never any one ‘overarching’ explanation. It’s the interplay of these factors that makes issues so difficult to address.
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That's why i like to study sociology & anthropology as they can sometimes comeup with very interesting ideas but mostly remain stuck in debating the present & linking it to past. An interesting idea you might enjoy is - Civility of Indifference.
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but nothing about Islamic history made this inevitable - it's very easy to imagine a world where a figure like Averroes becomes central to Islamic intellectual history, rather than the marginal figure he actually was (for a variety of reasons, some no more complex than geography)
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The question is also if you can make people in tribalistic and clannish societies secular? They have no incentives to embrace enlightenment. The enlightenment in Europe didn't came until after tribalism and cousin marriage had already been eroded.
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