Yes, I usually call them all totalitarian. Over here, some critical thinkers call Islam Islamofascism indeed. And they are right. A differentiation between polticla and on-political Islam, between Islam and Islamism, has never been, its a modern creation to weasel about the brutal fact of that there is only one valid candidate to claim Islam: the Islam of Muhammad. There has not been an official splitting of th curch, nor emerging of a second gospel of the Quran forming a tradition that is softening the brutality of the original book.Islam is Islam, and it is a totalitarian, racist, supremacist power-political ideology where the umma, the community, is everythign and the individual counts nothing. And that is what is called totalitarianism. Fascism. I am preahcing this since years. To speka of moderate Islam is like speaking of moderate Stalinism or humanist Nazism, or to make a difference between humanistic Nazism and radical "nazissism". Its BS. But elivers the wanted excuse to not start confronting this monstrous ideology, for that would become a hard fight. Preferred is Ringelpietz mit Anfassen as an alternative. Lets love each other.
There are those "Muslims" who want to reform Islam indeed. I know some such names here in germany, and as far as they are maning it honest and serious, they are right. But then they should have the courage and consistence to realise that what they create there is no longer Islamic anbd is not Islam. They should split away and found their own, new thing. As long as hmanists want to reform Nazism and turn it into somethign friendlier, but insist on themselves still being seen as Nazism, they help to give evil a kind face, and so i avoid them nevertheless, even if they are kind people.
The confrontation of evil shall not be saved. Calling it by its real name shall not be saved.
Most of the global Muslim world, the overwhelming majority of it, ticks extremely conservative, radical. Because the ideology is such in its core and essence, and so was the example set by Muhammad, and was his biography.
I think every state over time turns increasingly totalitarian, always, unavoidably. I do not know a single exception. Some already start more totalitarian thna others, some move into that direction faster or slwoer than others, but they all shift at that direction, always, and without real interuptions and standstills in this process. The founding religious or political ideoglogy of them seems to be irrelevant for this.
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