Yet there are people over here who wonder why muslims don't stand up to the radicals! Could it be because US media finds other story-lines better fit their paradigm?
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Unfortunately, this has not very much to do with Muslims standing up to radicals, and a great deal to do with Kurds standing up to Arabs.
ReplyDeleteI know that. But the Kurds aren't defending themselves because the Arabs are radicals. They're defending themselves because the Arabs are Arabs. Kurds and Arabs have a history of not getting along for over a thousand years, whether or not there were any religious disagreements to help the conflict along.
DeletePrecisely. No one goes to war and puts his life on the line for an abstraction. To demand that Kurds die without any self-interest involved is absurd.
DeleteAh, I get what you mean now. Got it.
DeleteThe demand for ideological purity is puzzling. If I want to know what mainstream Islam teaches, I would read the fiqh of al-Azhar University. It is not entirely dispositive, as Islam is a protestant-style religion, but it is more informative than listening to lunatics.
DeleteDid you know that Stalin was not fighting Hitler from love of capitalism? What kind of ally is that?
I am not demanding ideological purity. I am saying that it is odd to give the Kurds credit for ideological purity, as you seem to be doing.
DeleteIf I were to look for examples of Muslims standing up to radicals, I would look for Muslims who not only fight with bombs and bullets when directly attacked, but distance themselves from the radicals by saying that Islam does not call for such bestial behaviour. The current Egyptian government and the King of Jordan have both met this standard of late. I haven’t heard anything comparable out of Kurdistan; nothing (so far) to suggest that the Kurds have any objection to ISIS except that it chose to attack them.
What paradigm are you referring to? I'm a bit confused.
ReplyDelete"Narrative" might have been a slightly better word.
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