ziggy

4y

It doesn't necessarily, but going the mosque can be seen as obligatory in Islam. Hadith about it, and quran verses too IIRC.

Not sure about christianity though, that's why I added "different"

Frankito Reynolds

4y

It was obligatory there too 600 years ago. You dont see islam changing next couple hundred years at all? Already changed so much with all the different sects and what not. Who knows what's the "real" version anymore.

This is one of the main reason why middle easterners are getting oppressed, they cant get past this in order to get united

ziggy

4y

I don't see the main school of thoughts going away no.

I also think they are all the "real" Islam.

You got people in all of them that try to act like they are the real one, but the general consensus is that they are all the "real" islam and no one is better than the other.

I also don't see any of the Kutub al-Sittah or Quran changing, thankfully.

So I do think as you're saying more and more different interpetations of Islam will keep coming, but none of them will ever become the majority in Islam.

red eagle

4y

lol people don't understand that they can flex their power over the pop like that bc they're at war

let them govern without being at war and see if rules like that can hold up

Frankito Reynolds

4y

Ok cool. So you do agree that next muslim generation should be educated in a way that is accepting of the different sects and belief. And agree that this type of mentality that "we are the chosen people and the guardians" because we are "e.g shias, sunnis or alavis" need to be ablosished.

That sounds like reform to me

ziggy

4y

Definitely.

If that's reform to you, then yes. I personally don't see that as reform because most of the people I know already live like that.

Frankito Reynolds

4y

100%, all the muslims that i personally know are cool people. But ive also crossed path with the wicked ppl that are on exteremists payroll too. Ive seen exteremists propoganda .. school books being altered to spread separationist mentality... etc

Tkken

4y

just curious, given that you feel that people dont understand the nuance of afghanistans situation enough, what reading do you recommend that accurately reflects it

ALPHABEAR

4y

What’s this mean for the future of the region man? Like geopolitically? For Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan/India, China?

Frankito Reynolds

4y

Scenes like this, with Ayatollah's son beind the wheel

ALPHABEAR

4y

Well, that’s the whole truth of the Middle East + Pakistan & maybe Iran.

Oil barons & powerful military-family mafias literally siphoning the state-funding + wealth and inter-generationally marginalizing lower class families.

A rich kid in a golden lambo with a nuke launcher on the roof driving by an orphan starving to death on the street.

Frankito Reynolds

4y

Im iran an old man is in charge who has minions that run everything under the revolutionary guard "Sepah". They own all the factories, mines, farms, import export rights ...

americana

4y

Ibrahimi’s book on the Hazara also is a good book on ethnic relations that details the issues regarding the Hazara and the potential persecution that the American backed, Pashtun dominated government would play

The Taliban are a Pashtun political entity that want an ethnonationalist state

Birdie

4y

what book is this

americana

4y

The Hazaras and the Afghan State: Rebellion, Exclusion and the Struggle for Recognition

Frankito Reynolds

4y

Taliban and hizbullah and the ayatollah had a meeting during the first month of the start of the "new" USA adminstration in tehran. The plan is in motion