[lit-ideas] Re: Ideology vs Experience
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:13:45 +0100
Perhaps we could discuss my view that
>>>>>>>>
Because of the war on Iraq, some Muslims
are being attracted to extremist versions of militant
Islam.
<<<<<<<<<
as that is, it seems, happening in the UK.
EY> If all you mean is that the war in Iraq has caused more
> Muslims to join the fight against the West, what's the
> problem?
good point; the War could not decently have been opposed
on those grounds alone (WWII is not a good
general example, though). But is it not the case that
Bush says he is making the US safer by waging these wars?
Also Simon and I are both arguing, in our different ways,
against an over-emphasis on Qutb.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ideology vs Experience
> Simon: Do you accept that the war in Iraq has created more
> fundamentlists than there were before?
>
> How are fundamentalists "created"? To call someone a
> fundamentalist is to say that the person in question
> believes that the interpretation of every word of a sacred
> text is a literal truth.
>
> Usually, or so it seems, the intellectual development of
> people goes from a literal understanding to a figurative
> understanding, and not the other way, from metaphorical
> understanding back to literal understanding.
>
> So "creating fundamentalists" implies that an event can
> cause people to shed complex and nuanced views of religion,
> devolving into an obedient and unquestioning acceptance of
> literal statements. Seems unlikely.
>
> If all you mean is that the war in Iraq has caused more
> Muslims to join the fight against the West, what's the
> problem? Intensification of ground war in World War 2 caused
> more Nazis to join the fight against the Allies. Trying to
> dispose of a hornet's nest always makes the hornets swarm.
>
>
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