The Caliphate (Kalifat)

[Leonardo17]

“Islam is political, it doesn't get heavily politicized, it starts out that way.”

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- As I pointed out in many other topics, I totally disagree with that. The etymological meaning of religion is “To bind back” and the etymological meaning of Islam is “to surrender to God”. Spirituality (all spirituality) is an inner journey or some sort of psychological transformation program in which the individual (us / we) rethinks of his / her relationship with the divine. As it has been pointed out by philosophers like Martin Luther, it only involves the individual and the individual only. So it’s not even a “group” phenomenon. If there is a religious community or a religious authority, these guys are only there to support this inner transformation of the individual. Period.

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- China is not exterminating the Uygur. They aren’t even properly assimilating them. They have these camps and reeducation centers in which they are overtly torturing and brainwashing these people (clearly tyrannizing them) but as a result, these people cannot even consider becoming the next West-Bank or anything like that and annoy the Chinese government like that. That’s what authoritarian states do.
 
And a note on the ethnocide of native Americans: It’s very nice to see people like Shailene Woodley take part in the defense of native American right and truly recognize the wrongs that have been done to these people. This is a part of our evolution as a specie and I believe that things are rather moving in the right direction.
 
On the democratic way of dealing with extremism, many people think that governments are not doing enough on these issues. I’ve already talked about radical Islamists being released some 5 years after they have been arrested. Sometimes after becoming even more radical and radicalizing other people in prison.
 
+ There has been a verdict in France yesterday on the teenagers that had somehow helped the murderer of the Teacher Samuel Patty in October 2020. The judge gave only a year of house-arrest to 5 of these 6 teenagers.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/6-teens-invol...40118.html
 
The accusation is dissatisfied. They all wanted tougher punishments but the judge seems to have been willing to give these kids (young-adults) another chance in their lives if you know what I mean.

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So the right wing parties are demanding tougher measures. My view is similar. But I do not support tougher punishment. I support more social measures. These terrorists should not be able to be so appealing to these kids in the first place. So the root causes will have to be solved first.