Posted: Sep 07, 2018 2:03 am
Exactly what do you need Cito?
My observation, in a nutshell, is that there are certain personality types (violent, sadistic, hateful, psychopathic kinds) drawn to the ideology that we only know as Islam and Islam today has become the perfect conduit for these people to channel their aggression and hatred, even for things outside of the original religious context. I posit that there are certain elements, innate qualities, unique only to Islam, that makes it more effective than any other religion for sowing and propagating hatred, because thus far, there's no other religion that's been as effective at doing that. (This you can easily dispute by coming up with examples where other religions have been more or equally as effective at being a vehicle for propagating hateful politics. You haven't done that thus far.) My observations are derived from reviewing thousands of social media interactions and news articles from a country where the politicians are currently heavily utilising Islam in modern socio-political context (even if it's in a political context that's vastly different than what's prescribed in the quran/hadithts!) As aforementioned, Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international organisation that aspired to set up an Islamic global caliphate and they have always told their followers to abstain from voting, boycotting the election en masse, but in the local political context here the Indonesian branch of Hizbut tahrir are getting its followers to campaign and vote for Muslim political candidates that will certainly rule in a modern western democratic fashion. It's not that the most politically aggressive form of Islam has evolved to become more benign, it's because the Muslim* politicians are campaigning using malicious, hateful stuff. Islam is as hateful as ever, and it's hatred has only evolved to become more relevant to modern day socio-politics. Trump or the white supremacist neo-nazi neo-fascism movement would have been more successful if they had Islam on their side. Or maybe they have that already, they have borrowed certain elements from Islam for their campaigning strategies. I don't know.
*Or non-Muslim actually. Some of these politicians have Christian friends and even siblings. These guys have been photographed drinking wine and champagnes. They have wives and daughters who do not wear head veils. So if they are Muslims, they must have been the least practicing, most liberal kinds. For all you know, they could have been atheists.
My observation, in a nutshell, is that there are certain personality types (violent, sadistic, hateful, psychopathic kinds) drawn to the ideology that we only know as Islam and Islam today has become the perfect conduit for these people to channel their aggression and hatred, even for things outside of the original religious context. I posit that there are certain elements, innate qualities, unique only to Islam, that makes it more effective than any other religion for sowing and propagating hatred, because thus far, there's no other religion that's been as effective at doing that. (This you can easily dispute by coming up with examples where other religions have been more or equally as effective at being a vehicle for propagating hateful politics. You haven't done that thus far.) My observations are derived from reviewing thousands of social media interactions and news articles from a country where the politicians are currently heavily utilising Islam in modern socio-political context (even if it's in a political context that's vastly different than what's prescribed in the quran/hadithts!) As aforementioned, Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international organisation that aspired to set up an Islamic global caliphate and they have always told their followers to abstain from voting, boycotting the election en masse, but in the local political context here the Indonesian branch of Hizbut tahrir are getting its followers to campaign and vote for Muslim political candidates that will certainly rule in a modern western democratic fashion. It's not that the most politically aggressive form of Islam has evolved to become more benign, it's because the Muslim* politicians are campaigning using malicious, hateful stuff. Islam is as hateful as ever, and it's hatred has only evolved to become more relevant to modern day socio-politics. Trump or the white supremacist neo-nazi neo-fascism movement would have been more successful if they had Islam on their side. Or maybe they have that already, they have borrowed certain elements from Islam for their campaigning strategies. I don't know.
*Or non-Muslim actually. Some of these politicians have Christian friends and even siblings. These guys have been photographed drinking wine and champagnes. They have wives and daughters who do not wear head veils. So if they are Muslims, they must have been the least practicing, most liberal kinds. For all you know, they could have been atheists.