To a mildly rational person, the conflict fueling the rise of the Islamic State, namely the doctrinal differences between Sunni and Shia Islam, is the worst kind of Blue/Green division. A separation that causes hundreds of billions of dollars (read that again) to be wasted trying kill each other.
Would you apply the same logic to say the doctrinal differences between say Welfare-State Librelism and Communism (or Nazism)? Or this is just a case of “all ideologies that aren’t mine look alike to me”?
Fundamentalism has never stopped a country to achieve technological progress: think about the wonderful skyscrapers and green patches in the desert of the Arab Emirates
How is the UAE fundamentalist? I don’t see what standard you are using the applies to the UAE that wouldn’t apply to nearly the whole world pre-1950 (and possibly even pre-1990).
•What do Neoreactionaries think of the Islamic State? After all, it’s an exemplar case of the reactionaries in those areas winning big. I know it’s only a surface comparison, I’m sincerely curious about what a NR think of the situation.
By a remarckable co-incidence Jim has recently posted a blog post on this very subject.
Edit: Also this post for his attitude on Islam in general.
Would you apply the same logic to say the doctrinal differences between say Welfare-State Librelism and Communism (or Nazism)? Or this is just a case of “all ideologies that aren’t mine look alike to me”?
No, I think those divergences are essentially different, being about something that at least exists.
How is the UAE fundamentalist?
The main doctrinal current of Islam in the UAE is wahhabism, which, quoting Wikipedia, is described as “orthodox”, “ultraconservative”, “austere”,”fundamentalist”,”puritanical”. Let’s also not forget that UAE are ISIS’ main financer, and the country where 9/11 terrorists came from.
By a remarckable co-incidence Jim has recently posted a blog post on this very subject.
I kind of see where that post comes from. Although I think its commenters have seen too much in it, it’s harder to remain level-headed when the threat is coming closer and closer (literally, in the case of my country).
The main doctrinal current of Islam in the UAE is wahhabism
Are you sure you don’t mean Saudi Arabia? The UAE is not a Wahhabi country.
Let’s also not forget that UAE are ISIS’ main financer, and the country where 9/11 terrorists came from.
This is balderdash. The 9/11 terrorists came overwhelmingly from Saudi Arabia. ISIS gets its funding mostly from the territory it controls and its foreign backers are mostly in Saudi and Qatar.
Would you apply the same logic to say the doctrinal differences between say Welfare-State Librelism and Communism (or Nazism)? Or this is just a case of “all ideologies that aren’t mine look alike to me”?
How is the UAE fundamentalist? I don’t see what standard you are using the applies to the UAE that wouldn’t apply to nearly the whole world pre-1950 (and possibly even pre-1990).
By a remarckable co-incidence Jim has recently posted a blog post on this very subject.
Edit: Also this post for his attitude on Islam in general.
No, I think those divergences are essentially different, being about something that at least exists.
The main doctrinal current of Islam in the UAE is wahhabism, which, quoting Wikipedia, is described as “orthodox”, “ultraconservative”, “austere”,”fundamentalist”,”puritanical”. Let’s also not forget that UAE are ISIS’ main financer, and the country where 9/11 terrorists came from.
I kind of see where that post comes from. Although I think its commenters have seen too much in it, it’s harder to remain level-headed when the threat is coming closer and closer (literally, in the case of my country).
Are you sure you don’t mean Saudi Arabia? The UAE is not a Wahhabi country.
This is balderdash. The 9/11 terrorists came overwhelmingly from Saudi Arabia. ISIS gets its funding mostly from the territory it controls and its foreign backers are mostly in Saudi and Qatar.
Do you know anything about the UAE?
Yes, I was mistaken about the two. Saudi Arabia was the country I was talking all along...