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no Will, thats the difference between us.
ALL capitalist parties are my enemy.
You simply want a more social, kinder form of capitalism - the iron fist in the velvet glove... a few concessions from the master classes.
I believe in the abolishment of the master class.
I am outside of the system and opposed to all forms of liberal capitalist democracy. Is the Labour party better than the Conservative? Not especially... after 10 years they had become more right wing than the opposition in any case. Some of their people were more forward thinking and more enlightened, but the result of government was the same oppression of the people as always.
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But back to Islam and its extremism...
It may be true that in Iran there is drinking and whoring and so on in Tehran... this will exclusively be taking place amongst the rich and the elite.
The ordinary youth, the student movements, are becoming more radical and more conservative. In the country, there is no movement towards liberalisation that I see. The world situation is polarising... and in my own view, the West is not helping.
Of course, there are Christian murderers, and grotesque violence against women legitamised in Western African, Hindu and Sikh religions... and in Christianity's too.
Usama Bin Laden reflects on Islam in the same was as the Spanish Inquisition did against Christianity. Someone like Fred Phelps may be just as mad and hateful as Bin Laden (and a lot less clever) - but there is a difference, since one if a powerless hatemonger, and one is followed by millions.
The poverty enforced in many Islamic countries by the emerging robber bandit capitalist societies, reinforced by European and American colonialism - is creating a working class that is suffering under great misery. Of course, the capitalist will tell them to hate the American, to hate the Danish cartoon maker, or whatever else - anything other than the system that creates the poverty.
The future world will not have religion in the sense of as a definition. There is no reason why after the revolution people may not believe in God, but we will see the end of the SOCIAL power of organised religion, and its use as a classification and divide of the working class.
The violence of radical Islam is, really, the "sigh of the oppressed creature"
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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