A spiritual Ishmaelite

Author: ishmaelabraham

  • Islamophobia and theological antisemitism

    Resolving implicit theological antisemitism will come before resolving Islamophobia towards an ultra semitic culture.

    If Europeans learnt Hebrew they wouldn’t hate Muslims so much.

  • Quran 2:29 and ozone layer

    The age of earth is 4.5 billion years and age of ozone is 600 million years. The word seven is used in Arabic for multiplicity like multiple recitations.

  • Islamic alliances with American politics

    A Sunni conservative alliance may be possible because both want to preserve culture and commandments. A Shia liberal alliance may be possible because both are justice warriors.

  • Islam, modernists and dinosaurs

    A modernist calls orthodox Muslims prehistoric dinosaurs. I thought modernists liked dinosaurs šŸ™‚

  • Indian and Pakistani secularism

    Indian secularism serves to protect rights of Muslims. Pakistani secularism tries to resist rights of God.

  • Islam, patriarchal tyranny and feminist claustrophobia

    Amber Hume McphersonĀ This is the uniform of medieval patriarchal tyranny. It victim-blames women for their beauty. Where this is enforced it symbolises violent misogyny. Iā€™m not advocating banning this monstrosity but I refuse to defend it. It deserves to be ridiculed. Not the women inside it.Ā 

    I am the son of a voluntarily veiled zoologist mother. Can the overreaction to wanting to dress like Mary a western woman be the result of feminist claustrophobia instead of patriarchal tyranny.

  • Indopak prima scriptura-missionary contrast as a case of tough love versus positivity

    Today I witnessed beautiful tension of prima scriptura phariseeism and exaggerated pro feminist and pro ecumenical mystic positivity in Pakistan. Pro feminist orthodoxy can cure abusive patriarchy and anti feminist tough love can cure narcissistic feminism. Pro ecumenical positivity can resist imperialists and narcissistic sectarianism craves reform before unity. So, it can be a win win if positivity becomes more popular among orthodoxy and this popularity helps sects to reconsider their approach to reform. I see this specific influence as a form of geographical determinism so I can see beyond subcontinent al prima scriptura objectively considering texts and international spiritual spectrum.

  • Matthew, Simon and Islam

    Jesus had two disciples. Matthew and Simon. Matthew was law abiding and Simon was a rebellious zealot. American Muslims are like Matthew. Eastern Muslims are like Simon. I am a combination of both.

  • Scientific sectarianism and cold fusion

    Scientific sectarianism: The discipline-led triumphalism ā€” with chemists claiming to have achieved in a cheap test tube what physicists failed to do with high-tech equipment ā€” was trite and divisive.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01673-x?fbclid=IwAR1cJMtxE-hvbPjylzb_D-C2CtfwD4Ak0VGdemfgXF3DVpw7H6mKZNr0TOY

     

  • On Trump and a patronizing liberal

    Ishmael Abraham

    Liberal anarchism empowers reactionary people like Trump. I pray for empowerment of moderate centrists and humane conservatives.

    Ishmael AbrahamĀ I concede you know American politics more on tactical level. I care more about philosophical and theological underpinnings. I do not like to be offended by critics, but your constant patronizing tone may be an indication of a narcissistic fear of engulfment which hinders intimacy with fellow humans. I do acknowledge valuable liberal anti-war contributions which can become more altruistic if they avoid ad hominen attacks feeding the liberal grandiosity.