Tantawi calls for a ban on niqab

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This is news to the Persians and others who had their local culture Arabized by Arab imperialism. What is called Islamic culture is in reality very Arabized and increasingly so as the Saudi’s are financing another wave of Arab imperialism, especially in Pakistan. That said, there are still some differences between the interpretation of Islam in various places but those differences are shrinking. Look at Pakistan and its Wahhabization/Arabization over the past 25 years.

Eh, comparing Persia after the invasion by Umar ibn al-Khattab to the Arabization efforts in Pakistan isn’t a fair comparison bro.

Persia has always maintained its non-Arab character, while retaining its Islamic identity. Just because their language is in Arabic script doesn’t mean it is Arabized. Look at Persian intellectuals, you can’t tell me that Rumi, Hafez, Sa’adi, and Omar Khayyam have been effectively Arabized.

I am against Arabization, but even I’ll admit that if the entire Muslim world was Arabized, wouldn’t we all be speaking Arabic instead of our own languages? Something to think about.

I’m not opposed to Islam by any means, but I feel a need to retain our unique Islamic character in the face of Arab cultural imperialism fueled by petro dollars/euros. I do not like the Arabized Pakistanis no more than the so-called “liberal” Pakistanis (whose definition of liberalism consists of drinking, smoking, and fornication).

The Evangelicals in the US are not in the same league as Islamists. What they chiefly want is school prayer, the 10 commandments in government buildings, bans on abortion and pornography. This doesn’t compare to the totalitarian ideology of Islamists. The other key point is the Evangelicals can never impose their views because of the Constitution. The only thing they can perhaps overturn is abortion but pornography is likely to always be protected as free speech and school prayer and the commandments kept out by the separation between religion and state. They are also using peaceful means, namely elections to attempt to achieve their ends. Islamists seek a violent revolution in countries and ultimately the imposition of shariah around the world.

Evangelicals are also a minority in America. The vast majority of Americans believe in equal rights and even a lot of evangelicals do. In contrast, name just one leading Islamist outside of Turkey who believes “kafirs” or women deserve equal rights…

Dude you live in the Northeast. I live in Texas and believe me, there are a lot of those Evangelical nutjobs here who believe in the creationism garbage. They are to me not much different from Islamic fundamentalists. Heck, those idiots who whine about how “immoral” American society is should go move to a small town in the Deep South; it’s really not much different from what they are accustomed to.