What is the future of #Islam under the #Taliban?
My guess: #Afghanistan will catch up with #Iran in raising the greatest number of ex-Muslims — atheists, Christians, etc.
For, as I wrote before, dictating a faith is the best way to make people lose it:
nytimes.com/2018/03/25/opi…
My guess: #Afghanistan will catch up with #Iran in raising the greatest number of ex-Muslims — atheists, Christians, etc.
For, as I wrote before, dictating a faith is the best way to make people lose it:
nytimes.com/2018/03/25/opi…
Surely, disenchantment with religion has complex reasons everywhere, but exposure to violence, oppression, or bigotry in the name of religion is a significant force in the Muslim world, recently in Turkey and some Arab countries, too, as I wrote here:
hudson.org/research/16131…
hudson.org/research/16131…
Especially the #Turkey case, which I know well, is quite remarkable: Kemalists tried to secularize the nation for 80 years, with limited success. But a much greater secularization (including a trend of #deism) took place in the past 10 years — thanks to the Islamists in power.
Why? The Islamists in power proved to be staggeringly authoritarian, arrogant, corrupt and unethical in all sorts of ways. The disgust with them — wrongly, I would say, but inevitably — turned against Islam itself.
Lesson: If you want to preserve a faith, detach it from power.
Lesson: If you want to preserve a faith, detach it from power.
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