RE: Do you think Muslims will dominate the world again like they used before?
December 24, 2016 at 3:28 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2016 at 3:31 am by Regina.)
(December 23, 2016 at 11:22 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: However, I do find it odd some on the left are sympathetic to Islam. Maybe not Islam the religion, but more likely because it's perceived to be oppressed by all things progressives hate.
I'd like to think this is starting to change though. Over the last few years, we've seen the emergence of the ex-Muslim movement as well as still-Muslim speakers like Maajid Nawaz, who have contributed some great nuanced vocabulary for how The Left hace allowed this to happen. If you're someone who is ideologically opposed to Islam but you want to do it in a liberal way that doesn't come off bigoted, you can now do that thanks to these people. This is (slowly) starting to change a lot of peoples' minds, maybe not on immigration itself but on how we have allowed immigrants and minorities to radicalise through ignoring bigotry within their communities.
When we've got fresh Syrian immigrants who are coming to Germany who are showing concern about how radicalised and conservative European mosques are, there's an opportunity there. We need to jump on that and have that conversation, make changes and stop accepting Saudi and Iranian investment into "Islamic instutitions" in The West.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie