[MD] Muslim Mechanisms

[khaledsa]

[Bodvar]
> Great story. I understand that you prefer the political/ 
> economical/sociological (i.e. intellectual) explanatory model, but 
> we discuss the MOQ here I'd like to apply it (as I see it)  As your 
> story  shows there is no monolith "Islam" Beirut and example of this 
> diversity,  yet as John pointed to, deep down in the muslim heart there
is the 
> dream of an "Umma" (a world-wide religious empire) united under the 
>  Sharia law and to this idea, the Western secular/faith schism  (with 
> a  civil law that the religion must obey) is the great Satan, and my 
> contention is that the present "islamist" movement - inspired by 
> Sayyed Qutb's "Muslim Brotherhood" - is about preventing this 
> Western value from polluting the holy unity.  
> 
> I have a long MOQ-based explanation ready, but this far, what do you 
say?

A few days back while channel surfing on the radio Sean Hanity of all
people was being an apologist ( indirectly and unknowingly) for that sort
of thinking. He was bashing the liberal Hollywood elite and how they have
demoralized this country and saying how when the east looks at us and see
all that sex and nudity and loose morals, they get scared and are trying
to stop it from reaching their shores. He was channeling Sayed Qutb.
As for the Umma idea, that is new. Nasser tried to bring a Pan Arab
vision, and failed. Cultures in that part of the world are very tribal
and geocentric, so the idea of the Umma is a Neocon idea being forced as
an excuse to what is being done. I would say there is a stronger feel to
a pan-arab idea than an umma. A Muslim living in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan
or Palestine would feel a stronger kinship to an Iraqi Christian or Jew,
than to a Muslim Kurd, Turk or Indonesian. 

Khaled
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