A spiritual Ishmaelite

Being an Indo Aryan post Buddhist Sufi, I see democratic spirituality common to Christ and Buddha as evident in Catholicism where Catholic means universal. Jesus belonged to a chosen race yet his doormat ethics is universal like Sufism. Buddha also implicitly revolted against genetic Hindu privilege which was embraced by lower Aryan castes like mine and neighbouring central asians who competed with higher Brahman Aryan privilege.

A legalistic deist is enraged at my perceived tendency of mystic sentimentality

Nick Elam yes. Islam teaches interest free loans. Which is too idealistic and can even be more anarchist than communism. Bengali Nobel winner talked about low interest rate microfinancing, but there should be a precise rate.

Mushrraf Baig Ashraf This area needs research. Human factors engineering can work on that. Without further research nothing can be ruled out. I have researched radiation effects. They at least cause soft errors by reversing the bit so there can be biological effects on atomic level. So, we should be optimistically cautious about long term exposure to any radiation. At least we should not rent out our buildings to multinationals.

ڈیموکریٹک سلفیت نے تصوف کی جذباتیت کو رد کیا ہے جس کی وجہ سے پاکستان کے جدید توحید پرستوں کو امویت کا طعنہ بھی ملتا ہے محمد اسد اس فکر کے حامی تھے البتہ اقبال کارل جنگ کی طرح سائنسی جذباتیت کے قائل تھے

Nick Carligeanu Exellence of character in Islam means choosing a moral mother for your future children than romantic gratification which is not sinful per se. So, tension lies between moral motherhood and hedonism paradox.

Both modernity and tradition can be about civilizing the civilized, uncivilizing the civilized, civilizing the uncivilized, uncivilizing the uncivilized.

Zia represents what some call transmodernity. Eastern assertiveness can be described as neo traditional. Does Zia think neo traditional trendsetters are worth engaging because his standards seem too liberal to leave room for commandments in modern world. But how will legalist exodus within Islam end without some kind of safe and authentic Islamic Union.

Saudi Arabia and Iran must continue to exist as the only two porn free nations on earth when even Jerusalem and Vatican are not.

Rasheed Gillespie Modernity is sapiosexual in nature to intellectually rationalize every lust. Hanbalism by its blind escapism to textuality leaves no room for liberal speculation. And, therefore Eastern Islam refuses to bow to bibliophilic pride.