A spiritual Ishmaelite

To Kirby Hopper: There are obvious issues here, but the solution is not western feminism. People like my veiled zoologist mother need to be empowered to act as bridge builders and bring real change on the ground. Modern feminism due to promoting sexual revolution has actually increased abuse in traditional world by making our traditionalists even more inwardly narcissistic. This is a common Abrahamic issue which needs be addressed by putting away Greek hubris for a moment. I wish you meet women of my family some day and enlighten America about our stories. Afghans are modern Maccabees who even reject democratic Islamists. But this article shows an open mindedness towards an indigenous spiritually democratic statecraft.

I am a Hindko speaking Muslim. We should benefit from best of both worlds. If India can ally with monotheistic Israel which has European culture, why not ally with monotheists of Indian culture. Or does poverty cause self hatred.

I and my wife discussed the paradox of quantifying the relative status of a high IQ neo traditionalist compared to an average IQ pious modernist in context of historical tafzeel debate.

ایک پڑھے لکھے پیر اور ایک بعد از درس نظامی دکتور کا تقابل

West should change its name for a more scientific name if they don’t like sunset at beach. By the way Quranic story talks about a just leader exploring western most horizon which is intended to prove that a Quranic world order would be more just than Columbus and wounded knee massacre.

According to Islam one does not need to be infallible to be saved, but salvation requires gracefully outvirtuing your sinful eccentricity based on the concept of mezan in which ethical conduct plays major role.

Persecutors of my former Persecutors are bad because it is easy to shame Persecutors than Persecutors of persecutors.

Liberal Palestinians just want human rights with or without state. Conservative Palestinians want rule of commandments which rabbis should work out. But since many Arab Israelis are secular but rabbis should reach out to conservative Arab Israelis about how to stop polluting Holy Land with sexual revolution. As an orthodox Muslim I have no problem living with Torah humanists in a demilitarized Jerusalem.

Majid Nawaz is a semi-useful/semi useless byproduct of modern Islamism and dialectical theology. Noam Chomsky also acknowledges his background of Jewish dialectical theology.

Beliefs are already public so they can be manipulated. Ecumenical progress can buffer manipulation. In the same way if you are a unipolar liberal or conservative you can be easily manipulated by five factor model of personality based on our fb posts. So, we should explore centrist progress to be less predictable