The Caliphate (Kalifat)

[Leonardo17]

HI, I didn't like how I formulated my previous Post. Being unable to edit it I typed it again. Can you erase my previous message? Thanks 



   I’m not going to romanticize the feudal world order that existed in the past. But it was still a real practical way of doing things that seemed to work in the reality of that time. I am going to refer you to a movie that points at how corrupt this feudal order was in the Medici Era in the 16th century:
 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110963/
 
 

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   Also, the works of Machiavelli is a work that mirrors perfectly how these past monarchies were rotten from the inside and were anything but a perfect world order.
 
   Still, this was the political reality of the time. At least on some level there was this given world order that was perceived as being theocratic in nature and it still was serving its function in the organization of most societies in that era.
 
   I don’t think we can say that the populist-religious approaches of the 20th / 21th century can be truly compared to that. You can look at the whole middle-east to see that. I don’t know if you are interested in soccer for instance. Yesterday there was a Soccer Club Director who went in the middle of the play to punch one of the referees in the face.
 
   As BBC pointed out, this is actually something that goes beyond ordinary hooliganism. The Turkish people are actually living in this constant state of paranoia. Half of the things they hear from the media are nothing but lies. They are constantly being bombarded by a Russo-Iranian style propaganda that causes them to be suspicious about anything and everyone. I like to compare their ideology to the ideology of MAGA supporters in the US. They live in a world that is similar to ours but radically different with all sorts of conspiracy theories and lies about real factual events.
 
   So many people in this country believe that this referee “needed” to be punched in the face. The truth is: People don’t trust referees or club leaders or soccer players themselves anymore. Even something as fun and as entertaining as sports has become the playground of conflicting interests, lies and paranoia between different groups of people:
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkish-refer...11814.html
 

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   So that’s 21st century “theocracy”. As I said, it’s an abomination that is struggling to survive through fear, political pressure and raw-propaganda.