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Jun 28, 2023 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
Another one: Qadhi implies that while “the West” changes its value systems, Islam does not. The Navigating Differences statement similarly points to “recently popular societal views”. The ideas that recency implies incorrectness & Islamic values don’t change are misleading. 🧵 1/
Qadhi rightly notes that much of the “Western” tolerance (racial, sexual, etc.) is of very recent vintage. Their values change. He comes back to this later in his lecture – how there are constantly new values, they keep changing, they keep experimenting. 2/
Jun 25, 2023 • 30 tweets • 8 min read
Bc part of what I study is the left and Muslims, I think Qadhi etc. asserting Islam is neither left or right deflects from the point: People's understandings of Islam do guide their politics, but political choices – power relations – also shape interpretation of religion. 🧵 1/
There has always been a “subterranean” (underground) tradition in Islam and among Muslims, which has confronted the concentration of wealth and the domination of some over others, and which has struggled against a tradition more amenable to wealth and power. Both claim Islam. 2/
