Sometimes science fiction tells you something about the people who produced it. Other times, readings of of science fiction tell you something about the people who read it. This essay is ambitious but doesn't ever pause to justify its stark claims about particular works and doesn't quite hold together to the end.
Holy shit I cannot believe Israel is about to cause peace in the Middle East.
Iran and Saudi Arabia normalized. Iran and Egypt normalized. At this rate the Middle East will form a unified bloc by 2025. It would be similar to ASEAN, but with immensely more political power.
The Iran-Saudi thing started before the current round of fighting. At most the conflict accelerated it, and sunk any chance of a Saudi-Israeli peace.
Israel is about to cause peace in the Middle East.
Iโm guessing they were either joking, or talking about the Iran-Egypt normalisation. That one may be due to the current conflict, but Middle East politics is complicated and Iโm not an expert.
COVID rocked the world in 2020. We are now entering 2024. In the past 3 years, we have seen a lot more than 3 years worth of change.
Itโs a little convenient that the major changes caused by the pandemic started on a 0. But the 2020 - 2030 decade is shaping up to be a decade in which 50 years happen.
Please note that the Tehran Times is obviously not an independent newspaper, but has close ties to the Iran Foreign Ministry. This post just stays there because of the discussion .
Itโs really not hard to grow faster than Christians when they are loosing members at a rapid speed.
So as long as non-believers are growing much more rapid than Muslims Iโm really not scared. Especially since the extreme side of Islam doesnโt even try to get a political foothold. So until then I will watch the non-Muslim far-right with a lot more suspicion and concern.
But yes, there havenโt really been any attempts to get involved politically yet.
There the far-right definitely is far more dangerous.
But it surely is a topic we shouldnโt ignore.
Well he provided sources for his claims, you get enraged and switch to personal attacks when you get asked for sources. ยฏโ \โ โ (โ ใโ )โ โ /โ ยฏ
Ignore? No, but thereโs no reason to put this out of proportion.
First of all, Muslims are a very broad group with at least as many subsects as Christianity. Nationality and heritage also plays a huge role with Migrants, so yeah โMuslimsโ itself donโt worry me. Some radical subsects? Sure they shouldnโt be ignored and the proper democratic tools should be used to keep them under control.
The projected growth trend also donโt bother me to much as I donโt see Islam as anything special compared to other similar religions. The same reason why local people have less and less children can easily apply to Muslims as well. Notably access to proper health care and education. At the same time itโs also important to understand that in that regard of course Muslims also arenโt one uniform group. People who are registered as Muslims vary from the ultra orthodox to the โjust in it because quitting is to much hassleโ as Christians. Muslim children for sure are also no special in regards to them keeping faithful. They have the same โproblemโ with Children having their own mind and not always do what their parents want. Especially since they are in a society which actively promotes individuality.
So for now, the best way to counter the extreme portion of Muslims is rather similar to counter the national right-wing extremists. Provide them with good opportunities to have a happy life and the radical wonโt have ground to plant their seed.
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