I don’t see what the actual argument is. Either you want religious law to be the law of the land or you don’t. Either you aren’t secularist or you are. Are you upset about “Islamism” being the word instead of “theocrat”?
Are you upset about “Islamism” being the word instead of “theocrat”?
Yes lol. They won’t use “Muslim” because they’d rightly be called out as Islamophobic. They won’t use “theocratic” because it applies to zionists and Christians. So they made up a new word to other people. You have whiteys pearl clutching over “jihadists,” when “jihad” is just the Arabic word for “struggle.”
This shit is why Palestinians are being killed while liberals blame Hamas, instead of blaming Isreal. Or US adventurism for the rise of ISIS and the Taliban. Or European colonialism for poverty throughout the Middle East.
The issue is that’s not really an argument against Islamism being a valid term, it’s just saying that it gets weaponized by Islamophobes.
I also think it’s strange to say that “jihad” is not ideologically distinct from the generic concept of “struggle” because the word can be translated to “struggle”. That’s not how language works either, it’s a specific term with theological meaning. It would likewise be totally valid to use, to pick an arbitrary, the Mandarin word for “struggle” to connote the meaning of the term as Mao used it (which is not entirely different from jihad but clearly distinct from the generic term “struggle”).
I don’t see what the actual argument is. Either you want religious law to be the law of the land or you don’t. Either you aren’t secularist or you are. Are you upset about “Islamism” being the word instead of “theocrat”?
Yes lol. They won’t use “Muslim” because they’d rightly be called out as Islamophobic. They won’t use “theocratic” because it applies to zionists and Christians. So they made up a new word to other people. You have whiteys pearl clutching over “jihadists,” when “jihad” is just the Arabic word for “struggle.”
This shit is why Palestinians are being killed while liberals blame Hamas, instead of blaming Isreal. Or US adventurism for the rise of ISIS and the Taliban. Or European colonialism for poverty throughout the Middle East.
The issue is that’s not really an argument against Islamism being a valid term, it’s just saying that it gets weaponized by Islamophobes.
I also think it’s strange to say that “jihad” is not ideologically distinct from the generic concept of “struggle” because the word can be translated to “struggle”. That’s not how language works either, it’s a specific term with theological meaning. It would likewise be totally valid to use, to pick an arbitrary, the Mandarin word for “struggle” to connote the meaning of the term as Mao used it (which is not entirely different from jihad but clearly distinct from the generic term “struggle”).