{"id":3927,"date":"2019-03-06T14:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T14:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/islam-as-religions-most-virulent-subspecies\/"},"modified":"2019-03-06T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T14:32:57","slug":"islam-as-religions-most-virulent-subspecies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/islam-as-religions-most-virulent-subspecies\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam as religion\u2019s most virulent subspecies?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I agree with the gist of Claude Boisson's statement below (via e-mail) who takes minor issue with what he quotes me as saying in the header, turning my declarative into an interrogative. (I haven't checked all his factual statements.) I myself have referred to Islam as a 'hybrid' ideology: it is as much a political ideology as it is a religion.  It is a terrible threat to the West and its values, and it speaks volumes about the Left that leftists refuse to see this.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I would rather say that Islam corresponds to an *intersection* between \u201creligion\u201d (as we understand it) and politics, law, etiquette, etc. This is in fact what ulamas have always taught, and they consider this fact as a proof of Islam\u2019s superiority over, in particular, Christianity, a mere religion. <\/span><\/div>\n
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That is why we have the recently revived traditional Arabic phrase \u201cal-d\u012bn wa al-dawla\u201d, the religion and the state. This is what Islam actually is, not a mere d\u012bn. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Hence, for example, the following facts, otherwise uninterpretable:<\/span><\/div>\n
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(1) The Islamic era does not begin with, say, Muhammad\u2019s first revelation in the cave on mount Hira in 610 AD, but with the Hegira in 622, the flight from Mecca (where he was not very successful as a \u201cspiritual\u201d leader) to Medina. There Muhammad, already a prophet, became additionally a social, political and (ruthless) military leader and a lawgiver for the Umma, the community. Islam is thus a Gesamtkunstwerk<\/em>, not simply what we term a religion. <\/span><\/div>\n
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(2) The Islamic scriptures (the Sunna very considerably more than the Qur\u2019an) are full of \u201clay\u201d rules which seem very strange to the followers of many other religions: a man should urinate holding his penis with his left hand; Muhammad (the beautiful model that the muslimin should imitate) disliked onions, dogs, salamanders, musical instruments; these are the rules for dividing the spoils in warfare, etc.<\/span><\/div>\n
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(3) I have collected a list of no fewer than 27 mosques in 15 countries, from Morocco to Indonesia, bearing the name of Tariq ibn Ziyad, the most celebrated of the Muslim generals who conquered Hispania starting in 711. There are notably 2 such mosques in Spain(!), one in Gibraltar (the mountain is named after Tariq), 2 in France, 2 in Belgium, 1 in Germany. This is as odd as if one had Christian religious services in the \u201cCath\u00e9drale Bonaparte\u201d (he invaded Egypt) or a Catholic church named after one of the French generals who defeated Muslim armies in the conquest of Algeria in the 19th c., or Italian churches bearing the name of Italian generals who fought in Libya. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Related: More on "No Religious Test"<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I agree with the gist of Claude Boisson's statement below (via e-mail) who takes minor issue with what he quotes me as saying in the header, turning my declarative into an interrogative. (I haven't checked all his factual statements.) I myself have referred to Islam as a 'hybrid' ideology: it is as much a political … Continue reading “Islam as religion\u2019s most virulent subspecies?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}