Zach Latif pointed me to this green-dude that is going to do a series on the “Secularization of Islam.” This is on-deck for me, but I have a nasty tendency not to want to write without a reasonable understanding of the issues at hand-and my Islamic education is very sparse, my knowledge of Islam is most definately that of a kaffir. Religiously & politically liberal Muslims like Aziz Poonwalla & the Zack & Amber collective intrigue me (while Ikram Saeed is a Canadian-also, I note that I didn’t say Left-wing, there are plenty of socialist Muslims, my parents to extent fall into that camp, but they are not social liberals). My personal perspective from my knowledge of kaffir religious history-which I know better-is that Islam’s tendency toward sola scriptura (by scripture alone) will mean that though it seems vital and vigorous now, it will collapse to leave behind a rump of fanatics/orthodox very quickly, unfortunately, we won’t see the inflection point coming. This is what happened after the “liberalization” of the Jewry during the Jewish Enlightenment and the rise of “modernism” in European Protestantism [1]. The United States is the last white Protestant country by devotion as well as confession….
On a random note, anyone know anything about the little dancing girls in the new Missy Elliott video? The little white one and the Asian one?
Update: Frontpage has an article on the “Green Menace.” Of course, they mean enviros, while I use green for Islam. I will now use faux green for enviros, like I use faux brown for Latinos. There are 1.2 billion Muslims and many enviros are pretty fake in their my personal opinion (not all-even most, but a non-trivial portion), so I think they get the faux even though it is not common usage. Similary, Latinos can be any color, not just brown, and the numbers again, there are 1.3 billion South Asians….
Update II: This articlewas titled, “Why Muslims are afraid of J-Lo” over at Beliefnet. I think it was kind of deceptive-it didn’t talk about what the hadiths had to say on how tight a shawl should flow over her round rump….
[1] Spengler asserts that fundamentalism expresses the dying gasp of one cycle of a civilization. Protestant Christianity-which was more “fundamentalist” in a modern understanding of the term-attempting to return to “primitive Christianity”-might in such a manner be seen as the last gasp of medieval Christendom.
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