(July 6, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Muslims could become communist party members in the USSR but Orthodox christians could not. If this were down to a purely 'secular' ideology, do you think this would be the case?
This is interesting. Where can I find out more about this? I never knew the CCCP had such a restriction.
In regard to Communism being 'fucked-up' I would say Capitalism is equally as 'fucked up' because in the West people live off of the Third World. They have to in order to maintain their standard of living. The Capitalist economy would collapse if didn't have a huge supply of cheap labour. The poor suffer just as much, if not more, because of Capitalism.
Neither system is perfect. Even the Sharia, supposedly from Allah, has its flaws. The Ottoman Caliphate relied on slavery to sustain itself. Even today, IS is using slaves. In Muhammad's day there were no fire stations, hospitals or waste management facilities so, naturally, such costs have not been factored in when Sharia was first devised. If it wasn't for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk then Turkey would be this very backwards country, probably akin to Saudi Arabia today.
