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JudeObscure84
6th May 2006, 19:56
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/internatio...,358223,00.html (http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,358223,00.html)


"The[y] see themselves as restorers of Islam," says the anthropologist Gaspar Morquecho, author of a study of the Muslims of Chiapas. "Their defiance of capitalism is similar in many respects to the critique of globalization espoused by many left-wingers."

It seems as though Islamism is gaining momentum amongst former left wing movements and is picking up the slack where the former revolutionaries left off. No more Catholic Liberation Theology, now it's Koranic anti-imperialism.

redstar2000
7th May 2006, 10:00
No...doesn't have anything to do with the "left wing" of anything.

Poor uneducated people are always vulnerable to primitive superstitions and the hustlers who spread them...a sad truth. :(

When a modern revolutionary left emerges in Mexico, it will be in the cities and among the workers...and neither Islam nor Protestantism nor Catholicism will have anything to do with it.

In fact, they'll oppose it! :angry:

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