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FNS — Two Notes on Islam — From Islam

29 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by in Fast News Share, Free Speech, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, Islamic Small Wars, Politics

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For the biggest form of blasphemy that we all almost always commit is to force another to live in fear for believing, speaking, thinking and sometimes even existing, as we justify it in the name of our faith or stand silent as we bear witness.

No videos, sketches or hate speeches have hurt Islam more than the reckless army of blood thirsty goons justifying vandalism in the name of religion.

Saleem, Sana.  “In Pursuit of Clarity.”  Dawn, July 29, 2013.

As I have said in previous articles, a devout government must always support such principles as libertarianism, modernity and valuing women, beauty, art and science. It must not allow the slightest pressure or measure or reference reminiscent of pressure. It must turn its back on the possibility of radicalism and, as a “devout” administration, must apply democracy in the most perfect manner. We must admit that Mohamed Morsi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have made errors on this.

Kocaman, Aylin.  “A simple but burdensome word: Islamist.”  Al-Ahram Weekly, July 23, 2013.

The World Wide Web has turned out a global mirror.  Signal sent — signal returned: in language, we see ourselves as others (not always remote) may see us.

If the latest sentiments out of Pakistan and Turkey prove sustained, that thing called “The West” may have to resign itself to following rather than leading in the realm of ethical and moral investigation and righteousness, no doubt, however, while welcoming the competition.

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FTAC – End-State – Start-State – Cultural Polyphony – Two Basis in a Paragraph Bloc

21 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation

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If or as one becomes serious about global cultural polyphony, the physical structure that drives that is the earth and the influence exerted by its geophysical challenges and features.

This is a thing so large, so pervasive, we don’t think about it too much, and yet, from what may be used for clothing and how designed to what may be eaten and how prepared, our surrounds are in everything we do.

The intellectual thing we don’t think about and yet have the greatest difficulty in understanding is the invention of our greatest cultural technology: language.  We create it, live suspended in it, are channeled by it in many ways, but it having stability for many good reasons (including the observation that it would not exist or function absent of some stability), we wrestle with it even as it evolves (or I would be typing this in Latin).

For both ethnic and personal self-concept, I would regard land and language _and their legacies_ as fundamental.

The conversation had to do with Indus Valley Civilization and outlooks and tensions involving ethnic, national, and regional self-concept.

Starting Point Reference

God is Red by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett.

Note: if any should like books cited in reference to link directly to Amazon in the United States, do tell.  I thought it more universal to link to related reviews and Wikipedia entries.

Also, I’m preparing for this blog a page (in WordPress terms) for my library, which is still of personal size but growing.

Addendum

Tacked on to the same conversation:

A conversation that travels around the world may be about many discovered, renewed, and strengthened alignments and alliances.  It is a conversation that dictators and those of similar mien and ambition must fear because it is out of their control and may go against them.  One cannot keep apart people who have a deep affinity between them; however,a less considerate and strident charismatic and social cabal can and will produce ruin in a hurry, and in history, never more so than today.  Those so much better grounded in their humanity needs must rise to their occasion.