The Failure of Political Islam - Hamza Yusuf

so the the you know the point of all this is that the the book that I was going to recommend yes it's called the failure of political Islam by Roy Olivier I think it's a brilliant book he's not a Muslim he's a French intellectual who originally did studies in Atlanta Stan but he really studied very seriously the the modern political scene in the Muslim world and I think he gives a brilliant analyses of what's called fundamentalism it's called the failure of political Islam by Roy oliviere Roy oliviere it's French if you used to reading French intellectuals you know it's kind of it's got a little bit of that in there that they tend to be abstruse almost purpose purposely but but the the basic gist of his argument is that what happened within the Muslim world is that there was a radical secularization within the elite the intellectual elites of the Muslim world many of them adopted socialism and communism as ways of dealing with colonialism you will see Algeria is a good example of this right I'm Edwin bela boumedienne these are you know the revolutionaries that free their countries from the yoke of colonialism another example is Libya right the Jamahiriya means a socialist in his views jamala of the NASA who's kind of switching back and forth but basically a socialist worldview the Palestinian Liberation Organization a communist organization right from inception the idea was definitely the oppressed versus the oppressed within a dialectical this Marxist dialectic well with also Iraq the Baathist party socialist Syria socialists we forget this you know that how deeply this Marxist idea moves into the Muslim world Yemen communist the Communists take over Yemen communism traditionally is has seen religion as an enemy the opiate of the masses the this in the Muslim world was a little more difficult because of the you know the depth of the the sacred tradition still within those and so the type of communism the socialism there's almost a well let's reinterpret our tradition the Prophet was a communist right and this some of the the Western you know people said this about Jesus the original communitarian the disciples are giving up all their possessions for the poor so you get and now you have within the Catholic Church a very strong Marxist tradition liberation theology Sandinistas many of the people within the Sandinista were very devout Ernesto Cardenal was a Jesuit priest he becomes the Minister of Culture in Nicaragua so within the Catholic Church particularly in the so called oppressed lands like Brazil and and these places you find within Christianity a Marxist reaction of the of the Christian teaching and it's very appealing you mix Marxism and and Christianity to to the masses or Marx Amazon becomes very appealing if you're oppressed and suddenly your oppression doesn't have to be a materialistic but now you can be oppressed for the sake of God right it's a little easier to bear then purely a so what happens is is as communism begins to crumble right people what do we what are we going to do socialism fails it fails in Algeria it fails in Egypt it fails in Iraq it fails in Syria well Islam oh why didn't we see this before right we used to be great we had the Benny o Maya we had the the Abbasids we had the Ottoman Empire we were great we were ruling the world you know people looked at us we were the superpower we were the big guy on the block you know and how why was that well because God's grace was on us and there's a lot of Americans believe this right I mean Reagan was very much in that vein of manifest destiny America has a devil mission right the Americans god Bless America right there is an idea that when somebody's up up at the top that you know God shed His grace on us this is divine grace I mean we wouldn't have all this stuff if God wasn't pleased with us which is alien to the Platonic worldview by the way the Quran says if God gives man a lot then man says oh gods pleased with me and if he gives them a hard time man says he's angry at me is upset with me whereas from the Platonic worldview the testing is good and evil you're tested with want and abundance that they're both tests from God

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Length: 5min 9sec (309 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 04 2012