RE: Atheism on the rise in the middle east
June 13, 2015 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2015 at 7:23 pm by Regina.)
There are actually some quite daring secular movements in the Middle East, people living under austere Islamism (mostly Muslims themselves) are the first victims of it and the most aggressively against it. Far more brave shit than most of us cowards in the West have done to combat growing extremism in the West.
The problem is that these secular movements are not just silenced by the Islamists with their usual threats and violence. They're also silenced and erased by the liberal cultural relativists in the West, this lot who defend the barbarism under "well this is their culture, respect it, don't provoke". It's not the culture many young people in the Middle East want, but we're not showing the social solidarity with them we should be showing most of the time. Not military or political intervention, I'm with you guys on that, it doesn't help, but at least some social solidarity and not defending and supporting these regimes we wouldn't ever want for ourselves.
The problem is that these secular movements are not just silenced by the Islamists with their usual threats and violence. They're also silenced and erased by the liberal cultural relativists in the West, this lot who defend the barbarism under "well this is their culture, respect it, don't provoke". It's not the culture many young people in the Middle East want, but we're not showing the social solidarity with them we should be showing most of the time. Not military or political intervention, I'm with you guys on that, it doesn't help, but at least some social solidarity and not defending and supporting these regimes we wouldn't ever want for ourselves.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"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
