@sarahdoingthing So: pick a distinction that puts the outsiders on the back heel. ex: Islam does not and has never had a universal taboo...
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@sarahdoingthing ...on images of Muhammad. But insurgent puritan movements keep recreating that taboo over and over in Islam's history.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing One infers that it's because it intersects usefully with the natural tendencies of Islamic scripture: it *reads* as holy...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing ...both to the puritan insurgents and the compromising mainstream. cf. the Burroughs prose I linked.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing aiui it's also bc Islamic artworks & crafts tend to be thoroughly established & distinctively local traditions2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing and Wahhabis are basically carpetbaggers almost everywhere1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing so any tangible artifact of an Islam that predates them is a rebuke to their authority to boss people around1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@schakalsynthetc@sarahdoingthing One should expect naturally selected behaviors to solve many problems at once.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@St_Rev@schakalsynthetc like densely overlapped "patterns" in architecturepic.twitter.com/w2a5V5j5LZ
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@soapjackal one gene for both hardness of earwax and body odor and who knows what else (maybe)
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