"Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
Sep 10, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Do you guys know the meaning of the term "ketman"?
It's a Persian word for the practice of maintaining an outward appearance of Islamic orthodoxy while inwardly dissenting.
2/ In the former Soviet Union, ketman was the strategy everyone who wasn’t a true believer in communism adopted to stay out of trouble from the state authorities. You lived by lies to survive because you thought you had no other choice.