Now the thing is this - even Steve Bannon, the strident supporter of the new Right in the USA, and even after 9/11 and a series of wars in the Middle East, which at least on a certain level are virtual wars of religious ideology - even Bannon never wanted such a crass step to be taken as the 're-writing' of the Quran. In fact he has been at pains, to state categorically that all religious faiths and practices are free to exist in all advanced Western democracies.
The BBC recently suggested the Turkish people were using their traditional 'Turkish Kolonya' to kill the coronavirus. |
It is necessary and vital for informed debate to have authentic sources of originating fact, available to anyone who wants to critique some belief or ideology, and from which basis those who have the capability of defending their position and their beliefs and practices are then able to mount a rational defense, if that's what they wish to do.
But in all events, human societies are formed culturally over thousands of years, not over a few decades of some lunatic dictator's reign over people.
In today's world we have several examples of 'ignorant fanatic religions' one of which is Chinese Communism, and another of which is modern 'science...' Science was originally the idea that you questioned what you didn't actually know, and then you even continued questioning albeit perhaps less vigorously, what you maintained that you did 'know' and added any new available information, until the functional usefulness of that 'knowledge' was refined to its maximum capacity. And it was also continually tested, monitored, modified according to feedback results.
Actual Turkish 'Rose-Amber' Kolonya; the other pic was a Florentine line of similar items. |
But now, there is a politicized form of science, whose principal characteristic is shouting down anything and anyone who wishes to question whatever particular science manifesto is being touted at any given moment. It has its own 'Allah Kalam' intellectual angle of moment, as it were.
If science existed in a vacuum of intellectualizing, which explained the Universe, then things might not be so dramatic. But science exists among numerous other systems of' understanding' at least one of which certainly does say that time is fluid enough at 'the axis' such that human beings can see into the past as well as the future. 'The axis' is a concept that appears in the music of Jimi Hendrix, by the way, and you would indeed wonder how he got hold of such ideas at all.
The following is a very anti-'Sunni Islam' piece of poetry and music and should not be watched by good Sunni Muslims - however perhaps Emperor Xi can re-write it to be more palatable (advise you watch the whole thing, even though it starts slowly):