afleitch
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« on: March 23, 2012, 07:39:42 AM » |
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Wahabism.
The huge range of cultural difference within Islam stretching from Morocco to the Moluccas is being usurped by Saudi funded fundamentalist cultural bullsh-t that is seeping into settled communities in Europe. Indeed in Britain, it appears to be working it's way into Pakistani, Kashmi and Bengali communities (in their 3rd generation) in a way that it hasn't worked its way into their respective home countries. Afghanistan is a prime example of a Muslim country whose culture has been be overturned by an invasive ideology.
That ideology is so at odds with liberal democracy that it gets associated with all Muslims.
If you take a look at the Balkans; at the Albanians and Bosnians and Kosovans and other remnants of Ottoman Europe you have a completely different European based cultural identity in existance which in many regards is more tolerable in terms of democracy and human rights than neighbouring Orthodox Slavs. Long may it continue.
For the record the same thing is happening to Evangelical Christianity, though in this instance it's a US dominance of ideological thought (as well as church planting, missionary work and the good old fashioned dollar) that has based itself in small churches in Europe and larger churches in Africa, to great distress.
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