by Rhapsody » Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:13 pm
Islam as a system of memes is worthy of serious concern for Islamophobes like me. That most Muslims do not engage too much in it is because they are too busy surviving and raising their kids, because they are basically like everybody else. Moderate Muslims are not moderate because of any right form of Islam, but because they are human.
The Master of Pricklyness Lord Ibrahim fails to acknowledge this distinction: people who on a normal human level respect every other human being, but at the same time have legitimate concerns and sometimes fears for some of the ideologies or aspects thereof that others engage in as groups, often fanatically. Of course not every fanatic becomes a violent bomb shell, in fact most fanatics just have strong habits following precise schemes that do the magic for them, ie producing the desired religious-social experience via repetition.