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>>21448588
Also Shi’is in Syria supported George Floyd which Sunnis hated

>>20630208
The Messenger of Allah(pbuh) said, "Islam began as something strange and will return to being strange. So blessed are the strangers-"

>>20600120

Besides Why Liberalism Failed, and Democracy: the God That Failed, are there any good books explaining why tolerance of extreme groups and beliefs actually can paradoxically undermine western values of tolerance? I know popper said something about this but I didn’t read him

Where were you when Amanda Gorman btfo Dante?

'>“I proudly call myself a bitch,” Gorman tells me. “It’s a survival mechanism.”

>In the greater world of poetry, Amanda works against its traditional conception as a realm that keeps its gates closed to all except the “non-political.” She struggles with the idea that poetry is mostly focused on nature and romance.

>“I am very honest in saying that that type of conception of poetry is actually rooted in white supremacy,” Gorman says. “The personal is political. The fact that you have the luxury as a white male to write all your poems about being lost in the woods, that you don’t have to interrogate race and gender, is a political statement in and of itself."'

Can anyone explain to me why Nietzsche hated alcohol so much? He said it is along with Christianity the greatest cause of corruption (although he said this in praise of Islam). I know he had a delicate stomach but claiming Dionysian and all, it seems a bit strange

>>16796551
Islamists are based, Kurds are leftoids allied to antifa

Real talk, was intersectionality a psyop or genuine discourse? I realize how things like racism etc can divide ranks but making relationship to the means of production just one of a thousand things instead of the primary focus not only abandons Marx,it effectively neutralizes leftism altogether

>>16077138
That's more just journalism

Zizek on Islam. Thoughts?

>Which, then, is the repressed Event which gives vitality to Islam? The key is provided by the reply to another question: how does Islam, the third Religion of the Book, fit into this series? Judaism is the religion of genealogy, of succession of generations; when, in Christianity, the Son dies on the Cross, this means that the Father also dies (as Hegel was fully aware) – the patriarchal genealogical order as such dies, the Holy Spirit does not fit the family series, it introduces a post-paternal/familial community. In contrast to both Judaism and Christianity, the two other religions of the book, Islam excludes God from the domain of the paternal logic: Allah is not a father, not even a symbolic one – God is one, he is neither born nor does he give birth to creatures. There is no place for a Holy Family in Islam. This is why Islam emphasizes so much the fact that Muhammed himself was an orphan; this is why, in Islam, God intervenes precisely at the moments of the suspension, withdrawal, failure, “black-out,” of the paternal function (when the mother or the child are abandoned or ignored by the biological father). What this means is that God remains thoroughly in the domain of impossible-Real: he is the impossible-Real outside father, so that there is a “genealogical desert between man and God”(320). This was the problem with Islam for Freud, since his entire theory of religion is based on the parallel of God with father. More importantly even, this inscribes politics into the very heart of Islam, since the “genealogical desert” renders impossible to ground a community in the structures of parenthood or other blood-links: “the desert between God and Father is the place where the political institutes itself”(320). With Islam, it is no longer possible to ground a community in the mode of Totem and Taboo, through the murder of the father and the ensuing guilt as bringing brothers together – thence Islam’s unexpected actuality.