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Their definition of an apostate Muslim is basically identical to our definition of an assimilated Muslim. Simply being more tolerant may avoid one horn, but get
by Torgo 11y ago
Their definition of an apostate Muslim is basically identical to our definition of an assimilated Muslim. Simply being more tolerant may avoid one horn, but gets you gored by the other. They are not dumb, their strategy is more complex than what they lay out in their official publication. Their goal is to put the West into an unwinnable situation no matter what we do. When you say "erase identity politics" well this applies to a massive chunk of non-radical Western Muslims as well, you are in effect talking about eliminating the gray zone also. That is why their strategy is so threatening, there is no winning move for the West as long as the West holds on to its ideological contradictions.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Their goal is to put the West into an unwinnable situation no matter what we do. No, their goal is to place Muslims in a situation where the fear of hatred from the West against Muslims (which Daesh kindles by provocative attacks on the West designed to get the West to blame, and retaliate against, Muslims generally) and fear of the consequences of defying Daesh (which Daesh creates by violent attacks on those Muslims who defy them) leave Muslims to perceive accepting the dominion of Daesh as the least bad option open to them. That's how the Caliphate is formed and grows.