Salut Comrade, can you explain to me how us Commies should view and deal with Islam? As far as I personally see, from Reading Muslims’ writings and watching huge amounts of Islamic lectures online (Yasir Qadi, Mufti Menk, Numan Ali Khan, Mohammaed Hoblos…) the major Muslim opinion is very unfriendly towards LGBT, Jews, and atheism. And of course keeping women down by not allowing them opportunities. How can we reconcile this? I feel so bad because when I see Islam, all I see is an unprogressive ideology.
Firstly, I’d mention that every religion is weaponized by reactionaries, not just islam. Surely, the reactionary manifestations of islam are more apparent, it is in part due to xenophobic propaganda, using liberal moralism to turn well-meaning people against a minority. Also the material conditions of majority muslim countries that prevent ideological progress where islam is the most alive, as the ideological superstructure is formed and used to justify the economic structure.
Secondly, religions became so important because in feudal societies, most of the social life was organized by religion. The political discourse as well, was mostly structured by religion. But with the wave of bourgeois republicanism, religion was replaced by the republic to organize social life. That means, if you are not in a feudal society, religions are hollowed of their political function and become identities. As such, they may be used to justify reactionary sentiments but are far from being the reason of reactionary sentiments, as the analysis of structure and superstructure help us see.
Yasir qadi, mufti menk, zakir naik are not islam. They read the quran and argue in favor of their interpretation of it. You can read the quran and come to your own conclusions. God will decide who is right or wrong.
Also lots of Muslims including me disagree with the backwards views of these scholars. They spout whatever benefits their pockets. For example in the past islamic scholars used to say that all pictures are haram. But nowadays they all use smartphones which show pictures. You can find scholars thats say sports haram, birthdays haram, music haram, water haram, breathing haram. But they dont decide what islam is. If muslim majority countries were not poor you would see islam that is a lot more progressive.
Salut Comrade, can you explain to me how us Commies should view and deal with Islam? As far as I personally see, from Reading Muslims’ writings and watching huge amounts of Islamic lectures online (Yasir Qadi, Mufti Menk, Numan Ali Khan, Mohammaed Hoblos…) the major Muslim opinion is very unfriendly towards LGBT, Jews, and atheism. And of course keeping women down by not allowing them opportunities. How can we reconcile this? I feel so bad because when I see Islam, all I see is an unprogressive ideology.
Firstly, I’d mention that every religion is weaponized by reactionaries, not just islam. Surely, the reactionary manifestations of islam are more apparent, it is in part due to xenophobic propaganda, using liberal moralism to turn well-meaning people against a minority. Also the material conditions of majority muslim countries that prevent ideological progress where islam is the most alive, as the ideological superstructure is formed and used to justify the economic structure. Secondly, religions became so important because in feudal societies, most of the social life was organized by religion. The political discourse as well, was mostly structured by religion. But with the wave of bourgeois republicanism, religion was replaced by the republic to organize social life. That means, if you are not in a feudal society, religions are hollowed of their political function and become identities. As such, they may be used to justify reactionary sentiments but are far from being the reason of reactionary sentiments, as the analysis of structure and superstructure help us see.
Yasir qadi, mufti menk, zakir naik are not islam. They read the quran and argue in favor of their interpretation of it. You can read the quran and come to your own conclusions. God will decide who is right or wrong.
Also lots of Muslims including me disagree with the backwards views of these scholars. They spout whatever benefits their pockets. For example in the past islamic scholars used to say that all pictures are haram. But nowadays they all use smartphones which show pictures. You can find scholars thats say sports haram, birthdays haram, music haram, water haram, breathing haram. But they dont decide what islam is. If muslim majority countries were not poor you would see islam that is a lot more progressive.
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