A spiritual Ishmaelite

Author: ishmaelabraham

  • Scientific sectarianism and cold fusion

    Scientific sectarianism: The discipline-led triumphalism — with chemists claiming to have achieved in a cheap test tube what physicists failed to do with high-tech equipment — 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 Abraham 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.

  • Meek pharisee in a machiavellian world

    I am a meek pharisee in a machiavellian world. They killed me for being a stupid pharisee. They killed me for being a tough love pharisee. They killed me for being an ugly pharisee. I am a meek pharisee in a machiavellian world.

  • Indiscriminate hagiocratic zeal and sexual revolution

    The Prophetic descendants he loves were multicultural enough to build our Pakistani and Bengali societies. But his hagiocratic zeal although commendable in moderation explains the violence in Syria. I am not sure about his own biological roots while I am biologically related to the supreme human being and object of love in Shia Islam. I share his criticism of sexual revolution, but he seems to think Iran can cure it alone, which is very narcissistic like narcissistic Salafism.

  • A Gandhari Sufi Muslim and David Frawley

    My message to David Frawley:

    Peace on truth seekers. I am a Sufi Muslim and biological descendant of Gandhari Greco-Buddhists. I consider myself as a bridge between western faith, western race and western philosophy. In modern world semitic faith and indo-european culture are seen to be in aggressive conflict especially after rise of modern atheism.

  • To a Catholic supporter of modern Crusades

    I see many similarities between Sufi Islam and Catholicism. Sufi Islam can be described Catholicism of house of Ishmael. Your aggressive zeal may be a reaction to sexual revolution and militant secularism but we cannot resist them unless children of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac unite. Jesus was not simply a Messiah but a King Messiah, and Islam exists to prepare for his kingdom

  • To a liberal Christian cynic about biological legacy of Islam

    Let the children of Fatimah peace be upon her not forget that Imam Ali peace be upon him did not want to do injustice even to ants, otherwise Imamis will decline like Ismailis and Zaydis

    Greg Logan Ishmael Abraham. The fact is you have absolutely no idea whether any of that is historical or factual – most likely it is just wives tales
    Ishmael Abraham A Prophetic descendant is ruling Iran and challenging US and Israel. Prophetic descendants in Yemen are challenging Trump-Saudi alliance. Prophetic descendant Agha Khan is a major public figure in modern west. Religion is not a fairy tale for us but a living reality. You forgot Ishmael. God made his legacy global and intractable.

  • A tribute to 21st century lionesses of God

    Modernist women have a lot of feminist literature to read, but it takes a lot of self respect to verbalize traditional aspirations to the modern world. God bless Maryam Saleh and all lionesses of One God across the globe.

  • Militant secularism and future of traditional languages

    Secular militancy affects Muslims in short term, but if people are happy without God, liberal empire will eliminate traditional culture forever. In a world where people worry about extinction of animals, no one seems to care about traditional human languages becoming extinct. We do not deserve that.

    Nick Elam Religion certainly has cultural value, but if Islam really is the true religion it shouldn’t need human suffering to prosper. We’re talking about tolerant secularism here so if Islam was eliminated or diminished it would be because it’s followers chose to, not because of liberal empire.
    Ishmael Abraham Chomsky talks about manufacturing consent. Children are more likely to become victims of status anxiety than understand its cognitive roots. Atheists have higher suicide rate than theists so suffering is universal. But secular state offers many distractions in daily life to make people not experience existential anxieties.
    Nick Elam True, but I’m saying suffering directly benefits religion. I would argue the focus on the afterlife is part of what slows us from improving daily life.
    Ishmael Abraham You can say that about Catholicism, Sufism and even Buddhism. But orthodox Islam is against monasticism. But when orthodox Muslims like Morsi and Erdogan participate in social and political reform, they are accused of fascism. But among 1.5 billion believers there is a lot of diversity of spectrum between psychosis and fascism. Suffering causing fight or flight is basic biology. Some Muslims enter flight mode of sufi psychosis. Some Muslims enter fight mode of militancy. Stephen Covey talks about third alternative of wisdom, humble narcissism and tempered radicalism.

  • Soft secularism of Abu Talib, Majid Nawaz and Eiynah

    There is a Hadith: Sometimes God assists faith through sinners. Like the soft secularism of Abu Talib except that he was indifferent to Ishmaelite equivalent of Eros.

    Maajid has a conviction that his past traditional credentials are too sound that he can dare to be a radical doormat. While secular or post-secular Muslims like Benazir and Edhi want to be good role models of western humanism.

    God bless Christian humanism which civilized greco-roman polytheism.

    Feminism in traditional world died at the Battle of Jamal.

    Quran teaches that temptations like soft secularism are long-term strategic temptations which affect the soul of Islam in a deeper way that militant secular or sectarian violence. The resistance to modern cultural activism lies in Quranic ethics or akhlaq more than dialectic.