But that doesn't overlap all that much with the immigration issue, which I continue to not have an opinion on.
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Replying to @St_Rev @i_contemplate_
I say that being born and raised in an area (Miami) that's been in some sense culturally cleansed and overwritten. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Thank you. Absolutely agree that money has been thrown to make this problem 1000x worse than it would be otherwise.
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There are many Islams. Some of them are decent, compassionate, moral. Those Islams have been ravaged by Saudi money.
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But those Islams have always been infinitesimal relative to all mainstream mazhabs.
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Replying to @i_contemplate_
Not exactly. In Europe, central Asia, Indonesia it took on relatively benevolent forms...until the fucking Salafists again.
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Replying to @St_Rev @i_contemplate_
The process has happened over & over for centuries. Islam ravages an area, ebbs, people become human again, then it returns.
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Right, so this means the memes are very resistant and can be revived over and over again. Hence the 'essentialist' view not absurd
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Not completely true, but not completely wrong either.
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Replying to @St_Rev @i_contemplate_
what are the memes then? IMO its not unique to Islam, but most intensified within it
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Outgroup well defined and aggression actionable for rewards now and later, last prophet (memetically sealed)
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Replying to @i_contemplate_ @St_Rev
Cultural supremacy too (Arabic lang. of god)
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