Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Love

Love: a sense of thrilling and confusing for many centuries, a word which can easily be rude but also can make people give up themselves. We can't define it. It's not part of something conceptually we know. "Love does not have a definition," Ibn Arabi said, a Sufi and Spanish-born thinker of the 12th century in his treatise, Futuhat. "Those who define love means never know it, because love is a drink without missing thirsty."

Love: we just caught it as a process. It could never be photographed completely. A century later, Jalaluddin Rumi, the most famous Sufi revealed its sense, he called it Ishq. Love is the "sea of nothingness," the veil of secrecy will always veil it. Whatever you say or do to take off the veil, you're just going to add another veil over it. Presumably therefore, in thousands of lines of his Masnavi, Rumi just expressed it in a figurative, in allegory and in the form of negation, with a series of word "not". "Love is a tall tree, not on the ground, not above the treetops, even not in the crown of Heaven."

Maybe, Love will be clear only as the antithesis. In Rumi's contemplation, love often appears as a force which is contrary to reason. While the intelligence or reasoning is busy illuminate the space to reach the world, love has its own life and its activities: When reason is enforcing market and begin trading, love is saving jobs in hiding. "People who are in love," Rumi also said, "Find the secret places in the world that is full of violence. There they are "engaged in transactions with beauty". But such places are not recognized by "Reason".

"Nonsense!" the Reason said, "I've been looking around and measure the wall, and I do not find such a place."

Contradiction between Love and Reason -- or some kind of anti reasons -- is not only voiced by the Sufis of Islam in the age of Ibn Arabi and Rumi. In the 20th century, especially in Europe, since the raging crisis of belief in rationalism, some thinkers also emphasized conflict or incompatibility.

In the 1930s in France, Bergson's echoed the sense of élan vital, namely an encouragement of life that continuously flowing and growing, not a static presence. Science, compiled by the intellect / reason, will not be able to translate it. Reason is able to analyze, analyze means to unravel, but for that we have to look at a process that moves continuously as if it stagnates. A song which can arouse our feelings will be parsed by the intellectuals into a row of notes, and its high-low tone is calculated. But then, as if the song stops, and we are no longer listening to its melodious.

I think the elan vital in Rumi's term is called Ishq, and the more commonly is called Love.

Ishq is anti stagnation. It is an opponent of rigidity. Ishq dismisses the idea which becomes dogma or life translated in a matter of days. It rejects any sense that makes calculations to achieve one goal. It does not stick to the "effective instrumental reason" for conquering nature, making the world as an object, raising capital and controlling of others. Thus, Love can't live with the calculation of profit and loss, can't be used in political strategy also can't accept the doctrine that freezes thoughts and feelings -- a powerful doctrine to establish the power. Love dares to break away from it all. It wanders, searching constantly, trying to enter the mystery presented by God.

Presumably, it is not a coincidence if love -- which is always vibrating at the base of Sufis life -- becomes very strong as resistance when the power has been the life's goal of people who are supposed to be close to God.

In the 11th and 12th centuries, from Baghdad to Cairo, the qadi who became justices of religion often used their power to live comfortably. At that time, Sanai, the Sufi poet born in Afghanistan, wrote The Hadiqat al Haqiqa (The Walled Garden of Truth) and railed religious judge who "wrote a fatwa calling for bloodshed, driven by vicious intentions, ignorance and greed". He chided them as the scholars who while "taking bribes, outlining the rules". Against putridity had pushed Sanai to stay away from the power's temptation. He met a Sufi and since then he left his position in Ghaznavid Bahram-shah.

The more famous story is part of the autobiography of Al Ghazali, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (His Deliverance from Error).  In Rumi: Past and Present, East and West, Franklin D. Lewis outlined the dilemma experienced by major scholars in the 12th century: Al Ghazali enjoyed a prosperous position as a religious leader who became the main teacher at  Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad, but he also knew his integrity slowly damaged. For almost six months he was in doubt between "the worldly charm and encouragement to eternal life". Eventually he left the glitter of the big city, Baghdad, and then he went wandering.

Maybe he's not moved by love like Rumi. But he knows, God does not exist near the people who showing off their intelligence and wisdom. He knows God can't be reached by reason of profit or loss. The sufi chooses love and silent.
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In this foto : he looks thinner and getting older. He made me cry because I was so amazed by what he did : wearing Jubbah = Thawb = Thobe. Alain Soral is not an anti-Islam. Now I can only silent, speechless. I shudder, I tremble for then I can't stand to hold something pours out of my heart, and something is looking its way to say what my heart feels : seemingly I love him.
Alain Soral : Offert par un frère de retour de la Mecque et très agréable à la maison par temps chaud!

Wassim Bahi : Cheikh Ala eddine Essorali, imam et moufti de france interne grin emoticon

Saufiane Mahdjouboxe : Info BFM: le nazi Alain soral se serait converti à l'islam et partirait en fin de semaine en Syrie pour venir en aide à daech... Les djihadistes l'auraient solliciter après avoir lu comprendre l'empire et lui demanderait même de devenir le numéro 1 de l'état islamique.... Bien évidemment accompagné par sa délégation (Dieudonne faurisson le pen ) et chalghoumi pour ne pas éveiller les soupçons

David Mercier : Financer par l iran !?

Alain Soral : Par ta mère!

Hakim Haki : Mdr je pense qu'il rigole!!!

Assab Tchagaiev : Mash'Allah le sang algérien qui coule dans tes veines Alain

Assab Tchagaiev : El-Hamdoullilah

Midou Foulouj : Assab Tchagaiev c koi le rapport avec l'algerie?

Ibn'Smaïl Bnihamlil : Ahahaha dans ton cul!

Assab Tchagaiev Midou Foulouj : El-Hamdoullilah

Jean Marie : C'est le sang algérien qui lui a permis de dominer le dissidence game. Mashallah.

Dinasty Opinel : Zè La pute faut pas oublié

Lotfi Najar : Ptdrrrrrr bravo Soral # Soral a raison

Mehmet Gugdemir : ces des fou qui commente

Matt Tagad : peu importe la façon que l on respecte le seigneur le tous c est de l aimer et non le craindre lui et sa création et tous cela nous ouvres a la discution principe fondamentale de l humanité le partage c est la continuitée

Tahz San : Alain, si je te disais que j'avais une idée totalement pacifique, gratuite et rapide pouvant mettre fin au socialisme en moins d'une semaine, m'accorderais-tu cinq minutes? ça fait un moment que j'essaie de te joindre. Mon idée va tout changer. Réponds.

Wadie Salih :  Un Salut marocain Alain Soral

Evan Ferrand : C'est bien Alain, tu parles exactement comme la racaille maintenant. Tes fréquentations, voilà ce qu'elles ont fait de toi.

Fly Car Lagny : L'islam est pour les gens qui reflechise et sa fai longtemp que tu devrais etre des notre

Layla Minceur  : Apologie du terrorisme

Amine Sifane : On lance la rumeur ou pas?

Samah Rezzougui  :Ya salam! heart emoticon

Néhad Soliman  : t'es troopppp beau comme ça la classe ça te va très bien!

Mohamed El Hadi Fahem :  hhhhhhhhhh C'est un look traditionnel ( et non pas réactionnaire comme le décrivent certains chiens de garde). Merci Mr Soral pour ce signe de solidarité, toujours caricatural et provocateur avec une certaine élégance. Bonne continuation sur la voie de la dissidence et la fraternité de la transcendance.

Mahmoud Boubala : C'est déjà beaucoup mieux que la bite en l'air! Ptdrrrr

Yassine R. Jorti  : Musulman ou pas, tu seras toujours notre frère.

Aziz Hari : Alain t pret pr le ramadan

Savanah Héréus : " âme doux lila"

David Raffault  : Vu que les imams ne veulent pas venir débattre aux conférences (ou se pissent dessus),alors deviens imam ! hahahaa il est trop loin ce AS. 

Loïc Ayhintz  : lol la prochaine fois en rabbin!

Amellal Ibrahim : C'est dur l'abstinence ?

Jihed Kaibi Dieu : offre le savoir a tout le monde mais offre la religion et sa sagesse qu'a ceux qu'il aime j'esper que tu en fais ou feras parti, c'est la meilleure choses qui puisse t'arriver de toute ta vie... smile emoticon car la vie est vaine et nous répondrons tous de nos actions devant le tout puissant ... smile emoticon que Dieu te facilite le chemin vers lui . / Amicalement JK*

Momo Boyad : Provoque où pas! Moi je dis la classe

Aniss Pdc : Espèces de sal islamo-fachiste

Riadh Tdi : allez alain, une fetwa contre valls , qu'on rigole un peu wink emoticon

Mikl Tovarini : C'est quoi ton projet Alain?

Julien Mohamed Ali  : Alain, à force d'oeuvrer pour la paix, vous allez y arriver... vous maîtrisez à la perfection les symboles. Ce geste anodin vous honore. (Sans déconner, c'est pas mal ! ^^)

Abdelwâhid Al-Usfûrî  : Il est temps de prendre ta retraite mon vieux.

Ismael Fatisse  : Il est malain le soral..buzz buzz et rebuzz lol

Dominique Sierra  : il est ou ton costume de croisé

Fiery Apex : C'est dans ces moments qu'on se rend compte du public d'Alain soral. C'est .... intéressant.

Amine Eagle Eyes Belarbi : Pour faire la promo sur TF1 grin emoticon

Leila Husein Djebena  : Al-Qsoaida mdrrrrr

Bélaïd Ouidir : dans la main droite le chapelet lool

Sou Adossan : Vous avez la même réaction que les juifs qui s'extasiaient quand Estrosi dansait dans les rues de Nice pour Hanouccah avec une kippa sur la tête ...

Zenati Farah : Il a mit une robe arabe et vous vous affolez wesh l'habit ne fait pas le moine !

Zak Carter : Bienvenu

Moustapha Rifigno : Le pardon.. une tradition chretienne....

Younoussa Toumanyabhé Bah : Daesh ou Alqaïda?

Sully Sefil : Il le sais très bien c'est un cap à franchir

Aurel Bernard : Putain je crois en dieu mtn!

Jack Simon : Enorme

Arnaud Nônô : le coté religieux de Alain soral que j aime pas ^^

Ahlame Bel : Mazeltov!!!!

Ayoub Bounoua  : L'habit ne fait pas l'imam!

Davide Faga : Le nouveau rael? Hihihi smile emoticon

Amir Amalou : Comme dirait notre ami Dieudo: Voilà un bon musulman et même si il ne l est pas il est musulman quand même . LOL

Fati Tiwaline : C juste un vêtement arrêtez de vous emballer bcq de gens mm nn arabes le portent chez eux tt de suite on parle de conversion soyez crédibles un peu

Chouakria Ramzi : El hadj soral

Philippe Georges Brennenstuhl : Carnaval ?

Aicha Beya Mammeria : Alain mabrouk le nouveau look

Alex Cabaye : d'après mon bopère kabyle tu est facho lol et moi aussi puisque je te suis jspr qu'il verra sa !!! force a nos idées !!

Grégory Cachera : Je crois que j'ai jamais autant rigolé de ma vie en voyant une photo grin emoticon

Chafika Meziani :  est-ce déclaré officiel???

Momo Papillon : Mashallah frère toc

Wassim Jelassi : Réconciliation nationale

Hajar Bensi : C'est un déguisement ?

Ghozlane Ben :  là chui perdue mdrrrrr !!!!!!!

Gabriel Scounksi Allias Alfred : Ah oui j'avait pas vu que c'était lui même qui l'a posté

Pedro Vercingétorix Blanco : excellentissime 

Riadh Tdi  : Le colier avec la main droite alain, c'est plus crédible

Mehdi Bahmani  : Frère Abdalain Soral !

Abdel Ben Abid :  La classe mr soral

Jérôme Allard : Skippy le grand gourou !!!

Miloud Guermouche : Réellement converti ou simplement de la provocation Mr Soral ?

Karim Ben : Provocation ?

Sacha Clavier : C est de saison joli cadeau

Olivier Michel Turpin : exellent Alain smile emoticon

Faycal Badreddine  : Check Alain Soltan....

Si Sam  : Superbe !

Lafée Clochette : Bsahtek le buzz Alain !!!

Adam Nicolas : Aller frère Alain bon courage a toi.

Stone Stonefield : c'est bon, il a craqué son slip !

Tatiana Vincent : Avec ça, tu auras beaucoup de "beurrettes" qui frapperont à ta porte...

Samir Man :  Hadj Soral

Mamax Stibat : Halloween c'est le 31 octobre !

Katia Ouabi : Beau gosse, mon Alain

Amine Rouibi : Al Hadj Soral, il te va super bien al kamiss, surtout qu'ont il fait chaud wink emoticon

Julien Desprez : T'es à poil sous ta tunique?

Hacene Couscoussiere : C bientôt le ramadan alain

Farah Harat : Xpdrrrr je suis plier tu nous fais quoi soral la

Just'ina Freespirit Toh Ra : Neo kkk français lol...

Babou De France : c'est vrai qu'E&R est riche d'infos et d'analyses , mais putain de bordel de merde , parlez nous de la France , de NOTRE pays ... OUI , oui et oui , on sait ce que l'on doit savoir , à qui profite le crime , mais il n'empêche , ces moins que rien qui défigurent , qui salissent MON pays , qui nous empoisonnent la vie , à longueur de jour et de nuit , qui tuent , qui violent , DESOLEE , soit ils crèvent ( je n'en ai rien à foutre , il va falloir des exemples ) , soit ils dégagent , CAR jamais jamais jamais ils ne seront français, ET fini fini fini les aides de toutes sortes ( rien que pour ça , je souhaite que l'économie se casse la gueule, les bâtards capitalistes suivront ! )

Thermy Nator : C'est un leurre...il rentre dans la faille du systeme afin de donner de l'importance aux vrais misulmans, et attirer leur sympathie...a quelle fin?? Apres tout ce qu'il a dit et fait...ne soyons pas credule

Mickael Rambert : salem oualeykoum

Aicha Lachoub : mashallah belexemple

Simon Lestrade : Au moins tu vas attirer du muslim chez toi....

Karim la Baraka  : Que dieu le guide dans le droit chemin! Amine!

Nael Nael  : Ah vous êtes méchant .. C qu'une tenu confortable porter par des musulmans parce qu'ils étaient intelligent de pas s'infliger la chaleur dans les pays chaud .. Malgré ts ca lui va bien ..

Résistant Vatos Locos  : Que Dieu nous guides tous.

Oum SaRa : MashaAllah !

Lili Lili Morkache : Magnifique mâcha Allah qu'Allah vous préserve amin

Ilham Tahiri : Que alah vous guide dans sa lumière ..monsieur Soral.amiine.

Billal Feleh : Allah yahdik, c'est mon souhait...

Alban Giron : sympa la photo mélange musulman avec le chapelet chrétien lol , et sinon oui l'instinct les poussent à faire des fringues abritant de la chaleur

Frédéric Vandenbossche : Cela vous sied à ravir wink emoticon

Olivier Fricaud : Les moutons seront bien gardés !

Chafik Berrada Alawi : Ca te va a merveille #Sa7aMonFrére

Read Lh  : hhhh oh c booooo comme sa lol

Henry Lee Locasse : Une photos avec Morgan Priest serait assez marante...

Djehouty Thot : Ce n'est pas mon genre d'habillement, mais c'est vrai qu'on doit être bien à l'aise l'été avec ça

Michał Aksamit Aellen : Soral le ciste-ra et son swag de caporal...

Ayachy Ayachy : Noble et l excellents, Soral!

Saladin Kiko :  ah t'es muslim, salem

Habib Labess : La je comprend plus rien...

Deux Litron : Akhiiii

Kad Hmd : Macha Allah

Jean Marie : Alain s'est souvenu que du sang algérien coulait dans ses veines hamdoulilah

Rédouane Solt : Salam alaykom Chikh Soral ,mdr

Anth-jef Zoze : Ça c est un mec

Nas Sim : Vous êtes convertis à l'islam???

Joel Mamadou : Waaaaou sa change

Aleas Lelp : un musulman à metz

Umit Arslan : Hahahahaha l'escroc


Asmaa Hacene : Ohh trop mimi avec ton quamis.. j'adore. . Un petit mumus

Palîn Zîrek : Hahahahaha !!!! En mode Muslim boy !!

Kira Yamato : La pudeur Héleno Chrétienne

Romain Romanowicz Sauder : Mais c'est quoi ça?

Homan Ours : BHL le philosophe pâtissier ....( L' Entarté !!! )

Fethi Tout Simplement : ca vous va a merveille de plus c'est agréable leger et confortable a la maison

Jean Philippe Boehm :  pas compris mais ça,te va bien

Cengiz Kan : sayer les mecs de lille ont réussi a faire ce qu'il voulait a soral like emoticon bref félicitation chez pas si c'est de l'humour ou vrai

Alilou Derbal : Valls va être content .quand même.

Alilou Derbal : Même sans cette gandoura tu es un Sheikh Mr Soral.

Abdal Fath : Mise en seine ?

Yess Ait Mokhtar : ça te va tellement bien *.*

Moos Chittana : ca lui va trop bien

Pompom Grissou :  Ça te va bien en plus !!

Sidi Karim : Un facho qui souhaite acheter la communauté musulmane ! Notre niveau intellectuel est plus élevé que ça Soral l'ancien du FRONT NATIONAL

Stéphane Fane : Jolie djelaba. Il est vrai que. Les roubignoles à l air. C'est super agréable.

Abdel Freeman Amasigh : Sheick Alain soral

José Pedrob : il afait le voeu d'hésychasme, vive le silence!

Rochdi Deleveilley : C'est une blague ou juste pour faire chier certains

Radouene Ben : Cheikh soral et sa sebha offerte par le grand moufti dieudonne

Da Da : Charismatique!!!!

Sarah Mimouni : Pile avec le ramadan Alain!!!

Ali A Rirach : Alain soral tu ressemble a un moine boudhistes Loll

Elix Cloud : Ca vous va super bien !

Hassan Nassah : On ne peut être attiré que par la vérité quand on Na une bonne conscience

Montier Artiste Peintre : Ben Alain!!! Qu'est ce qui t'arrives?

Souad Houssein : Ne peut on pas changer de sujet

Tarek Laïche : ça tombe bien c'est bientôt le mois sacré wink emoticon

Amellal Ibrahim : Devenu moine ?

Rachid Lichani : oui les musulmans ne sont pas raciste

Zied Makhlouf : marine le pene parle avec le sheikh de lazhar e monsieur soral met la jalaba .

Mouadh Alpina : Bon alors reponse ?!!

Azhar Elk :  Jamais tu ne verras valls faire ça ......

Zied Makhlouf : ça nous manque une personne comme lui

Zied Makhlouf : le sheikh soral

Chana Louisa : L islam est fait pour les gens qui reflechisse et l etudi nous t aimons alain

Chana Louisa : La classe je me mari avec toi alain ca te va trop bien tu es magnifique

Mehdi Kadri : Oh le taquin

Julien Sarkissian : un konboloi pour comptabiliser les quenelles glissées à l'empire

Salim Rostane :  Esque c'est vrai t'es devenue musulman

Momo Imzouren : Mash'allah ça te va comme un gant like emoticon

Traoré Manai Imane  : Ouhlala je sens que cette photo va faire beaucoup de bruit ...je dis ca je dis rien lol

Aziz Aouadi : Tu me rassures, ça aurait déchaîner les réseaux sociaux

Yannis Redjala : sa te va très bien

Aziz Aouadi : Conversation ou inversion?

Elvinco Devillers : Il veut cloner des brebis ?

Moh Gaouar : Vous avez l'air serein mr soral, mais cette photo va faire le buzz!

Zineb Zi : Il fait rêver Mr Soral

Myl Ène : T'es beau Alain ça te va bien.

El Manifiko : LA GRANDE CLASSE

Miloud Guermouche : Un philosophe converti a l'islam. J ai beaucoup de respect pour vous Mr Soral.

Yann Lachaud : on lui donnerait le bon Dieu sans confession... smile emoticon

Merieme Zozo : C'est pas mal!

Fucking the New World Order  : Contre-inversion des valeurs?

Mohamed Autre Monde : hhhhh oh alain ça te va bien

Samir De Fursac : Il me fait moins peur que chalgoumi boubaker and co.....

Nadzeer Le Retour : Jaime

Gėlatine La Platine : La classe

Yasse Mina : Pas mal ! Un homme sage y'a que les cons qui ne changent pas.

Mohamed Delavega : terrible le look oriental monsieur soral

Samir Slimani : Elle te va a merveille Alain. Espérant qu'un jour te virons a la mec accomplissant le pèlerinage tout est possible dons ce bas monde. En tout cas bravo

Yacine Mans : C'est parti pour le Ramadan Soral grin emoticon

Moh Agromil : Manque un détail de taille; le bras d'honneur.

Chris Guevara : C'est juste un gros troll ce mec :rire:

Mohamed de la Vega : Sa vous va bien

Kaccimo Benvega : C est pas le style Daech ... et si soral n a pas raison !? ...prouver au il a tord ou Fermer la a tous jamais ;

Paillette Makili : Le clucluxclan, manque le bonnet ...pointu

Yassine L'Hassani : L ultime provoc'

Karim Daoudi  : Il fait trop rigoler..il veut énerver tous le monde " un frère..."

Med K Rouissi : Shiekh Soral 

Mohamed Belgium : C'est juste un habit, faut pas faire de descente d'organes non plus wink emoticon

Waleed Ouizem : quel culot !!

Johny Cavaliero : Mon dieu, il faudrait relire et méditer la contribution à la critique de la philosophie du droit de Karl, je crois.

Amine Malcolmx  : un shaolin t'irait mieux je pense lol

Farid Hazibi : Bravo

Tahar Berrehail  : J'ai TJ dis q'1 jour soral sera musulman, il a tout le nécessaire

Djamel Eddine Nasri  : Non, le Che n'est pas mort. Il revient encore d'hier à demain , son regard embrasse le monde, ...humble son costume de prophète. Bon frère toujours pour le combat; écrase diable serpent de Babel!

Eric Omar D : magnifique et stylé!!! ça te va bien

Aouine Akli : alah akbar

Sacha Clavier : C est la fashion week au crif

Mohamed Belgium : excellent

Aurélien Leblond : Le père Soral

Hilaire De Borneis : Attention, jupe trop longue ! wink emoticon

Alssafa Walmarwa : Merci pour ce geste

Eric Stark : haha ! Très bien, mais je suis pas certain que ça arrange ton dossier ça !

Electra Azouz : soit ce que tu est sans religions

Gervay Brio:  is it the end beautifull friend ?

Adil Jarek : ça te va bien en plus

Amir Amalou : Il saurait mieux défendre les musulmans que tous les responsables de l Islam en France et même en Europe . Seuls les musulmans peuvent comprendre la valeur de ce qu'il dit ! En tous cas c'est très courageux de nos jours de prendre cette photo.

Fouad Goodman : Soral s'est assagit ou je reve

Sou Soute : mashallah

Mia Bouallegue : trop beau ma cha ALLAH!!!

Soso El Majiko : Tt pour séduire les musulman surtt de France on est pour ton égalité mais jvoi pa en koi je devrai me réconcilier av ki pkoi ????

Rafik Bouaïche : Toi tu n'es pas un Charlie

Bérard Pierre : Là c chaud...... ça va être récupérer par les merdias c'est sûr la nouvelle branche islamiste en France ça va être Soral. .......

Guy Huard : L' ai pris pour un père blanc! (Ordre missionnaire catholique)

Nancy Cheryl : Je suis amoureuse de ce mec il dit tout haut ce que les autres pensent tout bas

Bilal De-Ketama : au top alain !!

Salem Gucci : Sheikh Soral

Brahim Sahrra : ca te va bien

Hafida Niati-abd El Nabi : Dieu est grand qui sait ?! En plus ça lui va bien machaallah

Ibrahim Azmani : Ça change des larbins en cravate!

Ibrahim Azmani : Ça te va à merveille! Quelques fois l'habit fait le Moine!

Elias Marcovitch : attention il vont bientot dire que tu a fait le djihad

Hamou Najet : noooooon!!!!!! pourquoi?????

Hamou Najet : Putain!!! qu est ce qui vs t'arrive????

An Tho : Et la tenue de Feria !

James Hous : Je respecte soral et toi tu manques de respect

James Hous : C'est que tu as en main ces pour réciter les noms de Allah pas pour faire le beau

James Hous : Tu te fou des musulmans on dirait ça se fait pas

Heni Hichem :  you are save now ..mr soral.. congratulation..but now..it s the hard part..you need to know the right chouyoukh not the chouyoukh of petrol..

Sam Top : Que Allah vous guide vers le droit chemin

Tatiana Vincent : La semaine prochaine tu pourras te déguiser en Croisé, ce serait amusant aussi !

Django Pac : Quennel d or

Nasro Chetouani : Provocation a quoi ??

Instinstif Davi-doff :  Rencontrer Jésus!!!

Stéphane Bellefeuille : WARFF!!! En missionnaire, tu es crédible!!!

Ali Jabour : Respect

Rubicon Hichem : Monsieur soral ça vous vas bien

Mourad Atwood : Ah oui !!!!

Rachid Machado @Alain : tu a toujours eté courageux, la tu defis vraiment tout le monde, vue comment tout le monde tape sur lislam, chapeau bas smile emoticon

Dorianov Samboulavsky : C'est quoi cette merde?

Gabriel Petrilli  : C'est quoi cette merde? constantine....merci tonton

Mathieu Callejon : C'est quoi cette merde? Quel est donc la raison ??? J ai suivi tes vidéo dont je trouve intéressant mais je n ai pas encore compris le personnage

Rachid ZE : Frere Alain lol

Sabb Sabb : Ça te vas a merveille machhaallah

Med Maamir : Ça te va très bien.

Dobrowski Gorbatchew  : Respect 

Arnaud Alcaraz : Que Dieu te protège dans ta recherche de la Vérité.

Arnaud Alcaraz : Va prier en haut de la montagne ( Proverbe sénégalais dédié au croyants qui arborent un chapelet de 10 mètres de long ).

Hakim Belfquih L'Indigné :ça Te Va Bien Davarich ^^

Mohamed El Fazazi : On dirait bien de la pub gratuite!!!!

Nadia Personne : un terroriste barbu!!!!!!! LOL je sais je sors ======>>>

Zinacheba Belazina : Salem Arlekoum Alain,

David Passarinho : Yeahhh!!!

Mohamed El Fazazi : C'est une provocation, ou bien il a trouvé son chemin vers la lumière????

Zineb Benzha : Bon ramadan

Agostino Tassi : Class Alain.

Amine EL Flaco : Mdr coup de poker ?

Yara Modibo : Le vrais

Abdelaziz Hanini : Avec le réchauffement climatique il faudrai adapter notre tenu pr celle ci! Alain t un visionnaire! Lol

Kimo Hakim Belcaid : Un tres beau cadeau esthétiquement et peut etre surement porte un message de maturité et paix si j t dis pas spiritualité,,en tout cas ça vous va a merveille, méfie toi de la beauté de cette religion souvent il nous envahit quand t on l attend point.

Marie Sombo : Trop beau alain soral! Et pourtant c est juste un ptit boubou. Cmt on peux traquer ce mec!?

Srg Dts : C'est un beau tissu de chez Marmoude, la classe !

Lalpave Wallace : Tu va trop loin Alain mdr. Sa te va très bien

Ahcene Benabdallah : Sunnite ou Shiite?

Redouene Bouchacha :  il dit quo si pas un musulman mai....si un musulman quand mm ^^ (Dieudo,Mes excuses )

Mohammed Lamine Djelil : On dirait un IMAM

Herve Michel Hivert : Il est beau le bebe...

Mourad Mourad Gondolfi : Un bon debut mr Soral. Bientot " la Salat" inchallah...

Abdel L'enlisé : Tout est mis en oeuvre pour amadouer une partie de la France offensée par l'équipe soral Dieuoo etc.. Perso je ne crois plus a la dissidence, ils auront eu ce qu'il veulent. Dommage

Fouad Soubeir : Soral#### gourou

Massimo Callejón : vive monsieur soral

Happy Culteur : Excellent et très seyant.

Mejeri Karim : C'est l'accomplissement d'un éveil spirituel bien aboutis.. il est maintenant complet Alain soral bravo

Yassine At Sumerten Lachemot : La Classe Alain!!!

Hichem Benguessoum : Une étape

Abderrahmane Zef : Mashallah mon frère

Eric Vennettilli : Le nouveau tee-shirt, frère Soral?

Abdelali Ghecham : Soral Musulman? pourquoi pas. tu seras encore plus damnés par tes compatriotes, mais quand tu seras au paradis, tu riras d'eux! Salamalaykoum frère Soral.

Mohamed Ben Abdelouahab : On voit bien que le Ramadan approche

Anis Bouchelit : Macha al lah مشاء الله

Nanes Nab : Un homme!

Malik Nbk : lol pas mal

Kavin De Angelis : mdr le pere soral en mode immam jimagine.deja llp avec les soraloscopie 2.0 les faux site dislam sous controle des rg qui vont lui cracher dessus!

بوسلاح ويط ويط : Mdrrrrrr 

Mouna Echadli : Droite pas la gauche hadj soral

Smaïn Gharzouli : Sa te va trop bien

Jean Marc Deparnay : qui dit frere dit fraternité ? alors dans ce cas il doit lui aussi combattre ceux qui se renvendiquent muslumans et qui tuent des chrétiens en ce moment meme

Tita Bel : ???

Fred Dosan  : Merde alors! Je croyais qu'il était devenu Franciscain!

Henny Henri :  bon style!

Laurent Blond : Ben Ali Soral ?

Cyprien Singer : le gourou

Rachid El Arf : Super bien soral respect je M incline devant vous monsieur soral

Khaled Cheraga : Mdr sorale je suis à Bordeaux quand j'ai vu la photo jai crée ton nom en rigolant tout le mande m'a regardé

Adel Mc Gregor : Le moins que l'on puisse dire c'est qu'elle vous va à merveille Mr Alain Soral !!!lol

Riad Masseria : monsieur Alain Soral j'aime vos analyses et vos réflexions mais je dois dire aussi que vous manquez d’honnêteté intellectuel quand vous critiquez le judaïsme et le talmud et vous le qualifier de merde et je suis d'accord avec vous mais sans faire la même chose avec l'islam est le coran qui est une vrais déclaration de guerre au non musulmans " je suis ex musulman vivant en Algérie " , ça dois étre pour des raisons politiques ..

Robert Lamoureux : Ta tapé ou quoi ?

Younes Ait Sid : Le cheikh Soral grin emoticon

Ktita Hbiba : Felicitation

Boudour Ben : Quelle classe !!

Hamza Moka : C'est un homme comme lui qu'il nous faut parmi nous

Zigzag Benaouda : Vraiment ca te va tres´bien,et comme tu dis elle est bien fraiche quand il fait chaud, on dit Mabrouk ; veut dire soit benit

Moudjib Kerkeb : ca te va cheikh

Henri Poncin : Je suis MDRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR n'oublie pas de faire payer tes vidéos !

Tissier Jerome : Mdrrrr

Iron Magelov : Allaho akbar

Aladin Abdenour : la classe

Io Youcef  : Tu t'es convertis en islam Alain LOL grin emoticon

Abdelhamid Tafrant : C'est une blague Alain ?

Philippe Frater : Comme quoi, tout vas bien à celui qui sait le porter... Classe et confortable je présume?

Florent Moyer : c'est la saint Alain?

Yannick Caloch : il manque juste la mosette, bon d'accord je sors!

Sarah Spalacci : Ah ouais quand même ahahahah wink emoticon !

Salim Akl : Yassine R. Jorti, Franchement je la voyais pas venir celle-là ! Soral musulman ?!

Mohamed Benz : RAEL

Sophia Skander : ???

Mouna Echadli : Hhhh

Océane Dugret : Lol

Mouss Distinct : mito

Oumaima Hafiani Mogue : Sexy

Sadia Elouallous : hhh alors la t es vraimant grille !

Sadia Elouallous : en tout cas je te voudrais bien comme representant !

Natou Ben : hhhh

Karim IDir : Alen ben soral El parisi............ Benglia

Sofian Lahcen : Ce qui devait arriver arriva ! Soufiane Benlamine

Hicham Abdeallah : Vianney Desserprit,  faut jte ramene le tien aussi smile emoticon lol

Zaakariaa Lap : ça vous va très bien, Monsieur Alain Soral.

Yasse Mineyas : il a RDV avec le cheik Sheikh Imran Hosein 

El Sarah : hahahaha quel malade !!!

Mounir Razouane : mabrouk le khamis


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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Islamism

"Now everyone knows that to try to say something in the mainstream Western media that is critical of U.S. policy or Israel is extremely difficult; conversely, to say things that are hostile to the Arabs as a people and culture, or Islam as a religion, is laughably easy. For in effect there is a cultural war between spokespersons for the West and those of the Muslim and Arab world. In so inflamed a situation, the hardest thing to do as an intellectual is to be critical, to refuse to adopt a rhetorical style that is the verbal equivalent of carpet-bombing, and to focus instead on those issues like U.S. support for unpopular client re­gimes, which for a person writing in the U.S. are somewhat more likely to be affected by critical discussion.

Of course, on the other hand, there is a virtual cer­tainty of getting an audience if as an Arab intellectual you passionately, even slavishly support U.S. policy, you attack its critics, and if they happen to be Arabs, you invent evi­dence to show their villainy; if they are American you confect stories and situations that prove their duplicity; you spin out stories concerning Arabs and Muslims that have the effect of defaming their tradition, defacing their history, accentuating their weaknesses, of which of course there are plenty. Above all, you attack the officially ap­ proved enemies-Saddam Hussein, Baathism, Arab na­tionalism, the Palestinian movement, Arab views of Israel. And of course this earns you the expected accolades: you are characterized as courageous, you are outspoken and passionate, and on and on. The new god of course is the West. Arabs, you say, should try to be more like the West, should regard the West as a source and a reference point. Gone is the history of what the West actually did. Gone are the Gulf War's destructive results. We Arabs and Mus­lims are the sick ones, our problems are our own, totally self-inflicted.

A number of things stand out about these kinds of performance. In the first place, there is no universalism here at all. Because you serve a god uncritically, all the devils are always on the other side: this was as true when you were a Trotskyist as it is now when you are a recanting former Trotskyist. You do not think of politics in terms of interrelationships or of common histories such as, for instance, the long and complicated dynamic that has bound the Arabs and Muslims to the West and vice versa. Real intellectual analysis forbids calling one side innocent, the other evil. Indeed the notion of a side is, where cultures are at issue, highly problematic, since most cultures aren't watertight little packages, all homogenous, and all either good or evil. But if your eye is on your patron, you cannot think as an intellectual, but only as a disciple or acolyte. In the back of your mind there is the thought that you must please and not displease" ― Edward W. Said, Representations of the Intellectual



What it means to be Muslim movement in 20th century? Entering second decade of 20th century, this world enlivened by phenomenon of political change in Middle East countries. After decades of reign, authoritarian rule of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and several other countries eventually collapsed. Turmoil of mass demonstrations forced them to hand over power to a transitional government and, little by little, bringing the democratization's process. Although in some countries such as Egypt and Syria the transition process actually ended with the military's return and a prolonged civil war, but the Middle East in general faces a transformation process that invites the observer of this region to rethink theoretical assumptions that exist about Islam and Politics in region.

Political changes that we know it as the Arab Spring, in its development, raises the discussion about issues which has been a lot of coloring the Middle East, namely the movement of 'political Islam' - a movement then we call it as Islamism. The transition process that accompanies Arab Spring takes many countries entered the democratization's process which -- so far -- is inhibited by authoritarian government in power. Consequently, some Islamic movements in various countries meet their momentum.

We can see an example of the rise of Islamic movements -- which brings 'Islamism' as an essential part of political discourse -- in some countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey. In Egypt, there are Muslim Brotherhood which became the opposition for more than five decades and have the opportunity to perform on democratization stage by forming Hizb al-Hurriya Wal-'Adala or Freedom and Justice Party.

In Tunisia, Rachid Ghannouchi finally returned to his homeland after two decades in exile in London, and founded the Ennahda party (Renaissance). So also with Omar Ghoul (Algeria) and Islamist activists in various countries, including Morocco that put their party as the election winner.

Surprisingly, they managed to win popular support and some of them (Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco) formed a government. This phenomenon needs to be highlighted: what causes the Islamist movements are capable of being the "alternative" power after the collapse of authoritarian regimes in Middle East? How they can build a new political order in Middle East and how their ideas for contestation in each country?

Bobby S. Sayyid -- 'disciple' of Ernesto Laclau -- tried to elaborate on some of these problems in his book, A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism (1997). In his books Sayyid tried to disassemble, epistemologically, erroneous views about Islamic movement and gave a new perspective on 'how' true Islamic movements articulate its identity in the midst of modernity constructed in Muslim countries.

Sayyid divided his book into five parts. In the first part, he presented a critique of many people view to what was referred to as 'Islamic fundamentalism', something that he thought was wrong and more pejorative meaning instead of explaining the essence of Islamic movement. The second section then provided a theoretical framework to understand Islamism as a political discourse, which he framed through the Post-structuralism Laclau Mouffe and Lacanian psychoanalysis. In the third part, Sayyid parsed Islamism birth from the collapse "of  Ottoman Caliphate" in 1924 which also marked the collapse of hegemonic order in Islamic world.

Meanwhile, in the fourth part, Sayyid wrote about the trail crosses between "Islamism" and the emergence of "modernity" which was characterized by colonialism and decolonization after World War II. The final section attempted to reconstruct the picture of Islamist movements struggle against the invisible empire in the existing global order, among others, through their resistance against authoritarian regimes that emerged in Muslim countries as well as the presence of global political power among them.

Sayyid departing from a phenomenal idea point in the late 1970s: Orientalism. The term was first discussed in depth by Edward Said (1978) and then opened the debate about constructions of thought 'West' in view of Islam and 'the East' in general. Sayyid admitted (p. 49), Edward Said's work opened a new way to approach studies of Middle East more critically. Edward Said was the first one to dismantle the tradition of knowledge about Middle East in the West, which is known as the tradition of Orientalism.

According to Said, so far, the literature on Middle East were not free of "certain values". He saw, from many writings, speeches to literary works, there was a kind of attempt to show the East's face to Western interests. "East" was displayed in such a way, with the description of caricature, essentialist, and full tendencies, to show the West superiority over the East. In line with Foucault, who saw that basically texts showed a certain power relations, which -- if it was tracked -- would lead to the narratives of 'West' colonial on 'the East'. By tracking the power relations of Orientalism's study texts in Europe and United States, he concluded that Orientalism study was not just a study of the neutral interest, but also between the fine talk in these studies, Orientalism tended to assert  the Western superiority over the 'other',  in this case : Islam.

Said's view about Orientalism later criticized by Bobby S. Sayyid. For Sayyid, Said had been stuck on "essentialism", had conducted over simplification of the 'West' and 'East' only at one particular point of view (p. 32). Sayyid distinguished two types of Orientalism (pp. 33-34): Weak Orientalism and Strong Orientalism. In Weak Orientalism, East-West relations mapped just as the relation of knowledge / power, which saw textuality as relations of dominance between Europe and The Other. The arguments built by Said -- both in his book Orientalism and Covering Islam -- made on this analysis.

Sayyid criticism is simple: East-West relations as something conflicting tend simplistic and fail to read the diversity of "Western" narrative about Islam (which is not all inspired by Orientalism study) and the diversity of Islamic world; and how the process of formation of the 'East' by the 'West' takes place (p. 34). For Sayyid, this view is very limited due to see his relations only in the history of Western domination on 'Islam' and does not see how the dominance occurs, what kind of space dominance, until (which is actually important as the study's implications) how to fight these false narratives.

Meanwhile, in the second perspective -- Strong Orientalism -- the analysis directed at "how the West to form the East". With this perspective, the relationship both seen as adversarial identity construction, in which the West "existence" is only possible through the East 'negation' (He saw this on Turner and Derrida analysis). Sayyid saw Said analysis failed to see the possibilities of Orientalism in this perspective, which allowed us to see how the "East" constructed by the "West" as an identity. According to Sayyid, "Weak Orientalism" as shown by Said stuck on simplistic readings when he began to read Islam, because Orientalism implied totality of readings to Islam. Is it possible for us to read "Islam" without being orientalis if we are outside of what is called "Islam"?

By using discursive perspective as developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe (1986), Sayyid preferred to use the term of 'Islamism' which he defined as a political discourse that made Islam as "the main marker" of articulation (p. 47). Discursive perspective becomes important to distinguish many articulations of Islamic movement, from those who use the parliamentary politics as a path and those who use violence as an orientation. They may differ in strategy and political approach which they profess, but basically tied by the "same marker", namely "Islam as the main goals and ideals".

Sayyid developed his argument further by borrowing Jacques Lacan's conception of the master signifier. Based on this approach, Sayyid saw the Islamists actually trying to make "Islam" as the center of the existing political order, or make "Islam" as a master signifier that bound every articulation of its race (p. 47). In psychoanalysis rooted in Jacques Lacan's thought , the master signifier is a "marker that does not have content marked, but bring together all the meanings that are formed from all forms of articulation". Islamism makes "Islam" as the main marker to make the main goal of all forms of articulation that use Islam both in content and repertoire. At this point Sayyid then entered the jargon, "Islam is the solution" or "Islamic law", which inflamed by some Islamic movements such as Muslim Brotherhood or Hizb ut-Tahrir.

From this cmoes the 'antagonism', because Islam that binds every articulation and political order can not be accepted by non-Islamists. For Islamists, "Islam" should be the main marker of any articulation which forms the existing political arrangements at all levels. However, on the contrary, for non-Islamists, master signifier is definitely not Islam, because it can not occupy the "center"position of political order that is being built. At this point antagonism is formed. Islamists articulation pivots on the idea of 'Islam' as the main marker and responded by circles who do not want it. However, the articulation never being in its "total meaning". There is always a dynamic, conflict and contestation which then accompanies the process of antagonism, which makes 'Islamism' is actually also not something final.

Based on this analysis, Sayyid moved on the question, "How does 'Islam' become a master signifier for the Islamists?" Sayyid reconstructed the emergence of Islamism to track Islamic Caliphate. Sayyid illustratedCaliph was not only as a 'political order' in the Muslim world, but also as a binder of Muslim political articulation (p. 52). Caliph 'set' the meaning of Islam and gave Muslims a sense of "comfortable" which allowed the political order established in the name of Islam (p. 53).

By looking at the discourse on Islam and the State, he argued that 'Islam' became a master signifier in the era of Ottoman Empire (pp. 53-54). Caliph bound and defined the meaning of 'Islam' in a standard institution, made every articulation beyond it became impossible. This was what he called the Caliphate as the Lawgiver, forming the legal order that freezing all political articulation and assigning symbols (p. 55).

But, in the 1920s, came the crisis. At that time, Turkey had just defeated in World War I. There was dissatisfaction with the Caliphate. At the same time, 'Young Turks' movement by Mustafa Kemal Pasha appeared as the main locomotive, which immediately filed a political demands. The crisis peaked, and finally the Caliph was dropped in 1924, placing Mustafa Kemal as the new ruler. He immediately introduced the abolition of the Caliphate with 4 packs of modernization in Turkey: (1) secularism; (2) nationalism; (3) modernity; and (4) westernization. These four themes replaced Caliphate "ideology" which politically based on raw Islamic norms. (p. 63-69).

From here Sayyid entered on his analysis of the emergence of 'Islamism'. When Kemal Ataturk abolished the Caliphate and replaced it with a secular state system, the meaning of Islam was 'dispersed'. Four Kemalist modernization package "floated" the meaning of Islam and made raw bond  which ultimately made the Caliphate hegemonic discourse during several centuries later be collapsed (p. 57). With this way, Kemalism brought the old hegemonic discourse into a crisis and building a new political order, with reference to the modernization. This discourse was supported by de-Islamization political which wass done either by replacing old institutions into a new institution -- laden with modernity -- as well as through the language of culture by replacing the "Arab" with "Turkey". In other words, Kemalism succeeded in making his discourse about Islam, that made the "meaning of Islam" should be in accordance with the framework of "modernity" as hegemonic discourse in Egypt (p. 59).

However, Sayyid focusing not only on Kemalism in Turkey. He also noted that a similar trend in the post-colonial countries, where the discourse of modernity became very significant to see the relation between "Islam and the State" or Islam in the existing Political Order (pp. 69-70). A similar trend shown by the Pahlavi regime in Iran or Quasi-Caliph in Saudi Arabia where Islam was an "unfamiliar with politics" religion. Pahlavi regime made the values of pre-Islamic as the main marker of political regime he built in Iran by embedding "Aryanisme's" discourse as a cultural and political identity in Iran (p. 71). On the other hand, Quasi-Caliphate regime in Saudi Arabia and Gulf countries put the "empire" and a political system that mimicked  concepts of "modern's" states, framed by Caliph slogans (pp. 72-73).

In these two forms of "state", Islam is applied as the basis of state's legitimacy  (with the apparatus of scholars, islamic symbol, and its sort of), but does not bind other discourses such as economic or political  development that is managed with modern references (p. 72). Saudi Arabia or the Gulf countries using the concept of "nationality" as the state and a highly capitalistic economic system. Thus, the hegemonic discourse is modernity. We can read one important thing of Sayyid analysis, "Islam as a hegemonic discourse, in the case of Kemalism, replaced by modernity."

In Kemalist perspective, "Islam" was described as an anti-modernity and had to be modernized. Islam became the object of modernization process (p. 87). Quasi-caliph countries , especially Saudi Arabi inspired by the Wahhabi revolution in the 18th century, made 'tradition' as something that should be replaced with the basics of modern Islam. However, different from Kemal, modernity understood by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab instead pivoted on which country he understood as Arab with the limits prescribed by Ibn Saud and filled with content of Islamic purification. Purification, as reviewed by Fazlur Rahman, then became an important trademark of Islamic reformism in the early 20th century.

From Turkey, Sayyid switched to Iran. Hegemonic discourse marked by Pahlavi's Aryanisme survived until, roughly, when the Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers of Shia thrilling this world with the revolution in Iran. Here another interesting things emerged: Khomeini gave a new perspective that tried to dislocation existing hegemonic discourse. With his Islamic revolution, he aimed not to create a dialogue with the "West". He aimed to change the existing political order with Islam (p. 89). Khomeini, thus, made the process of marginalization of modern Aryanisme discourse constructed by Pahlavi as the only discourse that - perhaps - became a political order in Muslim countries.

Islamic framework shown by Khomeini became the hallmark of Islamism: aimed to decentring the west of its position as the hegemonic discourse, and made Islam as "the main marker" of the existing political order in the country. In other words, Islamism was an alternative discourse of "modernity" which had been seen as the only way to progress (pp. 88-90). The picture shown by Khomeini against "the West"  in some respects, appeared in the depiction of Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb (the leading thinkers of the Muslim Brotherhood)  about "Islam" and "the West". If Khomeini saw it in the form of anti-modernity, then al-Banna and Qutb saw it in the discourse of anti-colonialism, which positioned "Islam" as an alternative force against Western imperialism through Colonialism. Al-Banna and Qutb slogans were used as jargons by Islamic movements, especially those who referring to Muslim Brotherhood.

With this perspective, Sayyid then understood Islamism was an articulation of identity. Islamism was a model of the use of Islam as a 'political' which aiming to build an alternative to the hegemonic discourse of modernization projects which implanted through a mixture of colonialism and authoritarianism in Muslim countries. By using the theories of 'hegemonic discourse' and 'primary marker' borrowed from studies of post-structuralism, Sayyid tried to read Islamism as an articulation which "challenging" modernity as the dominant construction about Islam.

Reading of Islamism as a critique of Eurocentric modernity, as a consequence leads us to a critical reading of studies on Islam and political Islam with exposing them to claim that "modernity" becomes a major marker of non-Islamist political articulation in Muslim countries should referred to the 'West' and 'Europe', or often called Eurocentrism. Sayyid saw that "modernity" was not singular; there were a variety of (multiple) type of modernity, because of its articulation in the social field, respectively, were different. Sayyid, at this point, analyzed that Islamism, consciously or not, also had roots in multiplicity of modernity.

According to Sayyid, after extensively reviewing Sami Zubaida's study about Khomeini, he concluded that Islamism was basically also had roots of "modernity", because it came from the response to process of modernization in Muslim world (p. 99). However, in contrast to Zubaida, Sayyid saw Islamism was basically articulating a conception of  different modernity with European modernity, which was supported by the assumption that 'the West leads the rest' (pp. 101-102). That was then referred to as "Eurocentrism". This conception became the main target of Islamism, because it had a discursive tendency to exclude Islamism as "the Other", which had to be willing led by the "European" (p. 106). The dominance of Eurocentrism in the study and political praxis in Muslim countries have put Islam is under subordination of discourse rooted in the Europe's identity.

Thus, Sayyed concluded that Islamism was present as a manifestation of "counter-discourse" to Eurocentric modernity. By challenging Eurocentrism, Islamism no longer be a "way to go back to the past"as accused by Bernard Lewis or Bassam Tibi. Islamism means an attempt to disarticulate modernity of other superior claims and put another possibility about the world's future (p. 111). Thus, Islamism is a hegemonic project that wants "to challenge" European universalism and states that itself is not the center of all forms of articulation, and to do what is called Sayyid as "provincialism of Europe" (p. 129).

This challenge was related to the interaction experience of Islamic world and the "West" that had been loaded with the practice of colonialism, imperialism, and westernization then "snapped" the meaning of Islam in their category since the Caliphate was abolished. Conflicts of identity since the emergence of Caliphate, then causes Islamism became a very resistant discourse against "the West", seen from the rhetoric displayed by Khomeini and, at some point, by Hasan al-Banna.

Islam will be Islam which then gives political energy for articulation refers to the narrative identity in it, in this case: Islamism.

In a broader context, the rise of Islamism as a global political discourse in later underlined by Sayyid with "globalization". From an economic standpoint, globalization asserts "European hegemony" with the division of 'North-South' (p. 132). In the post-colonial perspective, especially in relation to Islamic world, the processes of globalization which forms historically have confirmed the "Europe's" superiority. The effort is then challenged by Islamism and other subaltern discourse (pp. 134-135). Islamism, more specifically, to articulate imagination about people at global level, which then becomes an alternative to the "European universalism". This conception then leads to identity contestation between "Islam" and "West" occurs continuously and dynamically.

As a conclusion, Sayyid stated that Islamism is a political discourse that emerged as a result of the weakening of Kemalism's hegemonic narrative and similar variants in other countries. Islamism got a chance to build a new hegemony project when the existing hegemonic narrative was in crisis and as discourse it had a certain credibility. Citing Laclau & Mouffe (1986), the credibility of a particular discourse is not located on the perception of "external" to itself, but rather on the ability to build a chain of equivalence and establish a new political order. Islam has the power as far as it has rhetoric which is able to bind all other discourse, or becomes a Master signifier for its followers.

Although not specifically mentioned by Sayyid, a manifestation of the rise of Islamism can be seen from the Islamism after Arab Spring. With the  "rhetoric power" it has, Islamic movements such as Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt managed to build alliances with other Islamic groups and formed a government in 2012. But their hegemony project fell apart after a chain of equivalence which they had built was interrupted by military presence. But as noted by Sayyid, Islamism could not domesticated only on state and nation border. Because of the universal reference in it, it crosses national borders that its manifestations can be seen in the complex network of Islamism in Middle East, Southeast Asia, to Europe and America.

Nevertheless, Sayyid acknowledges that Islamism is not single. There are a variety of articulation refers to Islamism and all have a variety of demands and forms of organizing. However, it does not mean Islamism has no coherence. In a certain point, when another discourse threatened, they will be able to establish common ground and make their discourse strong (pp. 159-160). This is why, for Sayyid, Islam can be a marker of "expectations" about better order.

Book written by Bobby S. Sayyid has more or less open our understanding of contemporary Islamic movements that are now taking the momentum of democratization in Middle East. During this time, Islamic movements, both moderate as the AKP in Turkey or Jihadists in Egypt and Afghanistan, more often positioned as a political rather than academic. They are seen, with very Orientalist perspective, as a "threat" to the civilized world order and as aspired by the United States. This view, following Sayyid's criticism, clearly fall in the trap of essentialism and in some cases overly generalizes the problem.

It is interesting to read Mahmood Mamdani analysis (2002), also short writings of Tariq Ramadan (2010) about 'Good Muslims and Bad Muslims'. Their analysis about "Muslim" after 9/11 shows that the discourse about Islam has been cleaved by the United States's foreign policy interests. There is a good Muslim profile, which described as a moderate Muslim, peace-loving, and does not have orientation on violence (jihad), while there are others who imaged as 'bad Muslims' who incite jihad against US imperialism, or critical against the West.

As a consequence, we can see the image of "Moderate Islam" dominates the discourse of academic to foreign policy. The efforts of some countries to see "Moderate Islam" as something that must be carried out, reflecting the hegemonic discourse that sees Islam must be in accordance with the framework of modernity, and excluding others who oppose this perspectives. This perspective, in some respects, articulates Islam as a representation of particular interest and even excludes the representation of others interests who also want to refer to Islam.

Through his book, Sayyid had warned us early not to fall too deep into this view's trap. Critical Islamic Studies constructed by Sayyid contributes to saving the Islamic studies from the trap of essentialism that sees "Islamism" only as an attempt to return to the primitive civilization which is now no longer relevant. Islamism must be seen as more complex by understanding the construction of identity in it.

But, of course, there are some weaknesses in his book. I noted there were three fundamental weakness of Sayyid's study. First, his study about "Islamism" forgets the material basis of the demands and discourse shown by Islamic movements which become his study's target. Because so focused reading Islamism in the context of the discourse and identity, Sayyid forgets that Islamic movements voice his discourse and demands in community life. As a result, Sayyid's reading about "Islamism" and criticism of "Eurocentrism" also falls in overgeneralization.

There's social and political economy context which is also important to explain, for example, why the Muslim Brotherhood failed to maintain its political legitimacy in Egypt or why "Islamic economics" -- on an intellectual level -- until now can not present a concrete alternative on the global economic crisis. Studies with orientation at the analysis of historical sociology or political economy can contribute to close this gap.

Secondly, Sayyid study also does not help us to understand the transformation of Islamic movement that is currently going on, both at the local, national, or global. This could be due to a very theoretical explanation or because of the limited time (this book was written in 1997).

Sayyid does not give a lot of explanation, for example, how the Islamist movements after the decade of 2000s actually builds a critical dialogue with Western civilization and receives partial concept (this can be tracked, for example, at Rachid Ghannouchi's thought, Recep Erdogan, and in some ways Anwar Ibrahim).

Although Sayyid admitted, at the end of his writings, that "Islamism is not a single", we can ask," How is the relation between 'post-Islamist' generation - if I am allowed to use this term -- with a modernity that emerged from the West? Is there a "transformation of identity" or is this just the dynamics that could lead to a new political discourse?" This question is not answered in his book and demands further elaboration.

Third, as criticized in two of book reviews of Beverley Milton-Edwards (1998) and Muzaffar Iqbal (1999), this book will be hard to be understood by readers who do not know Derrida's tudies, Laclau, Mouffe, Lacan, or Zizek. Besides very philosophical, it is difficult to translate into certain methodological framework for analyzing its grass roots issues. On the other hand -- more theoretical-- this study also too emphasizes to "Islamism" as a political identity and less elaborate on its practical dimensions, such as rhetoric, the network they built in the local sphere, as well as the attitudes of "Islamist" to contemporary issues such as capitalism. So, let alone dig "progressive side" of Islamic Movement which can be seen from its engagement with issues at local level, this book actually showing "to draw the line" between Islamism and "Eurocentrism" as a discourse. Though, indeed, there is contestation between them, but the intersection at a more practical level remains important to ask for understanding the contemporary Islamic movements.

Nevertheless, the book with 178 pages is very interesting to read by observers and activists who study contemporary Islamic political movement. With readability and systematically English lnguage, this book gives enough "alternative" on Islamic studies that has been dominated by orientalism and negative stigma on Islamic Movement.

With some weaknesses that I have explained above, now I have unanswered questions, "By understanding the Islamist movement as a manifestation of resistance to 'Eurocentrism', could they turn into progressive in the fight for oppressed classes in global politics scheme? Those who have been oppressed by global capitalism are also Muslims, right?"

More comprehensive answer to this question will help us to build an uninterruptible bridge between "Islamism" and "Socialism".
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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Fundamentalist Islam

It was very dramatic! In less than an hour, the "lungs of U.S." collapse, destroyed by mega-terrorist action on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. Deliberate action which was armed only by "a dagger" has been successfully rammed three domestic aircraft into World Trade Center (WTC) Building in New York, which became a strength symbol of the U.S. economy and Pentagon building in Washington DC, a symbol of U.S. military superiority.


Then the US government -- through former president George W. Bush -- issued two political statements that fueled anti-Muslim fervor throughout the U.S, and even spread to Australia and Europe region. Two of these declarations using the word "Crusade" and accusations without proof against radical Islam led by Osama Bin Laden as the mastermind of mega theater behind the destruction of WTC and Pentagon.

Bush sparked harassment against American Muslims, ranging from negative labeling until torture, and even murder. Moreover, since the beginning, in the West mind, Islam has always been described as extreme, militant and fundamentalist.

According to Robert Mueller -- FBI director at the time -- dozens of discrimination cases befell American Muslims. Another version compiled by Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) showed more than 300 cases of harassment, discrimination and violence experienced by Muslims in America.

Responding to the situation, Bush tried to neutralize it by urging Americans to not disturb Muslims and mosques. But the state already murky and complex. Discrimination and anti-Islamic wave has spread everywhere. The anti-Islamic phenomenon, in turn, causing backlash with the spread of anti-American-West's wave in Islamic world.

My question is, "Why terrorism has always been identified with the fundamentalist Islamic movement? Whereas, it can be, another group performs this action, such as the Japanese Red Army group that jolted the world with operations of Black September at the Olympics in Germany, 11 September 1972.

Or, perhaps, the U.S. citizens themselves who did it, such as the bombing case of federal building in Oklohama  -- previously totally unexpected -- that the culprit was a former soldier, Timothy McVeigh. At that time, Fundamentalist Islam was the only party which most suspected as mastermind of the bombing.


In general, terrorism is a purely political crime, but because the approach used is a religious sentiment: Crusade (Bush version) and Jihad (Fundamentalist Islamic version), then the tension that arises is the clash between Islam and the West.

This tension, in addition popularized by Samuel P. Huntington's thesis in his book, "The Clash Of Civilization", also supported by the orientalists, politicians and Western press which was very provocative and intense in giving stereotypical extreme, radical and fundamentalist to Islam. Even the comment of former Italian PM -- horrendous Silvio Berlusconi -- openly said, that Western culture was superior when compared to Islamic culture. Is it true? Then, who did colonialism in Asia and Africa? Who was also killing the Jews in Europe, if not the European leaders themselves?

Meanwhile, on the other hand, the West labeling even further reinforces the spirit of "fundamentalism" of some Muslims who always get a negative label. Presumably, the identity of "fundamentalism" is used against the West, especially America, since its military aggression has successfully mastered Afghanistan in a very short time.

Identification of Islam with terrorism, extremism and radicalism increasingly globalized after the bombing of Legian Kuta - Bali, 12 October 2002. Moreover, this action occured in the largest Muslim country in the world and aimed only at foreign tourists.

Indeed, terrorism is barbarity. Nevertheless, the problem is not simply resolved by the claims have been hunting for Osama, or accusing a particular group as the mastermind. There is no guarantee, after Osama's death, terrorist networks will be destroyed. Even it can be, thousands of other Osama are emerging. You can slaughter the entire human race and radical group, but this will add to the gloom over the history of human civilization.

From here, it can be said, the tension caused by collision of two negative current,  unavoidable, and both have thorough passion. In the language of Epicurus, both have been infected with the virus of "the desire of wholeness". The first flow have desire with its technological superiority, as well as a desire to organize the whole world according to its will. The second stream is being driven by religious superiority, the feeling of being harmed, and captivity of tradition in black and white.

Actually, there are many efforts to reconcile the two currents, both from the West and moderate Islamic thinkers. Unfortunately, the 'desire' of first current is too strong and already globalized, so there is a claim of terrorism, radical, extreme, and fundamentalist for the second current.

Historically and academically, fundamentalist term itself was originally intended for the American Catholic fundamentalists who did not want the adjustment to modern reality. However, according to Roger Garaudy, this term in its development has expanded the meaning, not just limited to Catholics, but also extends to other movements that are identical to the static, fanatical and conservative. Thus, there is a term of Jewish fundamentalism (Zionism), Vatican fundamentalism as well as Islamic fundamentalism, etc.


"Rand Corporation"-- a Strategic Research and Study Center on Islam and Middle East, based in Santa Monica, California and Arington, Virginia in the United States-- on the financing of the Smith Richardson Foundation, conducted a study of the Islamic Movement in various parts of the Islamic world.

Results of research and study has been published in the institution a number of official reports, among others, entitled: Civil Democratic Islam (2003) and Building Moderate Muslim Networks (2007).

The report of "Rand Corporation" becomes an important reference for the US National Intelligence Council that oversees 15 intelligence agencies from 15 countries, which is currently chaired by Gregory Treverton. In various reports, "Rand Corporation" mapping the Islamic Movement in accordance with the West interests, ie into four groups: Fundamentalists, Modernists, Liberals and Traditionalists. In the details of each of these groups, described about the character, traits, status and ways of handling each group. Coupled with the documents of other studies results, then it becomes clear : the classification of Islamic movement conducted by West researchers is very subjective, because it is only based on Western interests.

Under Western eyes and in accordance with their interests, then what is meant by the Fundamentalist is the Islamic Movement with "Anti-Western" character. Its traits are four, namely: pro Islamic Sharia, pro caliph of Islam, anti-Western democracy and critical to Western influence. This group status is "Dangerous", and its handling is "Finish them".

Anyone, individual or groups of Islam  who support the struggle of Sharia law, agree with the enforcement of Islamic Khilafah system, and reject Western democratic system, then critical and selective against Western influence, then certainly -- for the West -- they are fundamentalists, no matter they are straightforward, firm, soft or hard, calm or vocal, stay home or go down to the street: they are Islamic fundamentalists.

The group is given the status of "dangerous" because it is considered as a threat to Western interests. This group is considered unfriendly to the West, and even tends to antagonize the West. Anti-Western  Democracy group is always considered as a group that does not appreciate discussion, intolerant of the difference, bossy,  obtrude,  nti-dialogue, rigid, conservative, radical and exclusive.

This group should be finished with a variety of ways, among others: Firstly, sticking a negative image by the environment to the group. The trick, all the good deeds of this group should not be publicized by Western media networks and its accomplice. All errors or badness of this group -- no matter how small it is -- should be published on a large scale, even its preaching must be repeated, even if already expired. They create a negative stigma in this group so that the group is identified with unappreciated things by the public, such as radical, anarchist, terrorists, and so on.

Secondly, stunting the activists. Prevent them from developing the quality of education and other human resources. In the news,  any academic degree or honorary degrees from the leaders and activists of these groups should not be mentioned, let alone to mention their work. Mention the name only, and they should be displayed as fools, untidy, uncreative and impolite. Highlight their ignorance, their backwardness and their ferocity.

Third, to isolate the group. Do not give this group the slightest chance in the power system : in the legislative, judicial and executive. Do not involve these groups in any event: national and international. Never ask any opinion in any matter to this group. Never give any role in what circumstances and anywhere.

Fourth, the group's putrefaction. Infiltrate and provoke among activists and among leaders and members of this group. Ride every action of this group and confuse their agenda. Create a variety of damage that could be attributed to this group. Spread slander and accusations of what is systemized that could destroy this group.

Fifth, murdering of the group. Trap and create legal reasons to catch the leaders and activists of this group. Create a formal legal reason to disband the group. Push the authorities in order to make this group as a banned organization. Pay thugs to compete with this group. Threaten, terror and intimidate these groups wherever they are. Make the group leaders and activists feel uncomfortable to travel anywhere. At peak conditions: Kill the figures and activists of the most dangerous groups for the West interests.

Just as "anarchists", the term "fundamentalist" and "fundamentalism" is now already interpreted wrongly. This error affects the use, which is often inappropriate, for example Islamic fundamentalism and Fundamentalist Islam. The use of terms recklessly by the media and secular-liberal academic environment to label a person or group becomes the cause. Society bombarded with terms that its meaning is dictated by the media. It does not matter right or wrong, although at first it seems odd and weird, but a systematic and consistent onslaught finally managed to force the misconceptions to be agreed by the public.

Sociological division of society with various terms as Islamic attributes such as "liberal", "inclusive", "moderate", "radical" and so forth, of course, does not need to be done. The term "Fundamentalist Islamic", will practically obscure the term of "Islam", because it opens the possibility of a form of Islam which have other characteristics, "liberal Islam" for example. The use of this term just shows the confusion of thought which is contaminated by West's frame work. The most dangerous implication is the destruction of key concepts in the Islamic faith. Islam has been knowing the division that comes from a Muslim way of life: it is the Koran, in which there are a variety of terms such as Muslims, believer, heathen, hypocrite, pagans, etc.

My simple conclusion is, Islamization project of social science is becoming an urgent necessity. If by practicing the teachings of Islam, then I am classed as a fundamentalist, well, just call me a fundamentalist Islam.
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Friday, April 18, 2014

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Feb. 2 - Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are preparing to test their theory that stem cells grow faster in microgravity. With a grant from an organisation that promotes research aboard the International Space Station, Dr Abba Zubair will send a batch of cells into space where he believes the future of human tissue generation with stem cells may lie. Ben Gruber reports.

Abba Zubair is a medical researcher. He once dreamed of becoming an astronaut but now he's reached a happy compromise. His medical science experiment is about to be launched into space. Zubair, a stem cell researcher at the Mayo Clinic, has been awarded a $300,000 grant to grow stem cells in microgravity aboard the International Space Station. Zubair says that simulated studies have shown that stem cells could potentially grow faster in microgravity than on Earth. He hopes his experiment aboard the ISS will prove it, while also revealing any developmental problems that may emerge. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ABBA ZUBAIR, STEM CELL RESEARCHER, MAYO CLINIC, SAYING: "When cells are stimulated to grow one of the risks is the cells can transform to act more like abnormal stem cells. And do you know what abnormal stem cells is? It's cancer cells. So transformation to become malignant is another factor that we want to look act." While one batch of cells grows in space, another batch will be grown on Earth. Apart from the presence of gravity, the growing environment will be the same. Zubair says this will allow his team to analyse the impact gravity has on stem cell growth. If the initial experiment proves successful, and microgravity proves to be a more suitable environment for stem cell growth, Zubair says the next challenge will be to transform the cells into tissue, and ultimately organs. Zubair envisions a future where replacement organs can be grown in space for people who need a transplant later in life. . (SOUNDBITE) (English) ABBA ZUBAIR, STEM CELL RESEARCHER, MAYO CLINIC, SAYING: "So think about it, you can have a spare heart or liver or kidney stored somewhere in space and you just give a phone call when you need it. So we get your stem cells we grow tissue or organs and keep it for you until you need them." And while that scenario may be decades away, Zubair says the research could have implications for the near future. He says that if stem cells can replicate significantly faster in space, then doctors will be able to treat their patients more effectively here on Earth.





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I'm so sorry. When I wrote your name in Zapatista, you are still alive but at that time I said you were dead. I wrote your name with the word "late", and a few days later I have edited your name without the word "late".

Now you really die. I feel no need to edit the word "late" for your name, because the word "late" is no longer there and here.

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CZ

"Thank you for your perception! I like your romantic side, even if I do not always comment and I'm glad that you're in my circle of friends."
(Courtesies by: Wolfgang A. Gerhardt)

Wolfgang A.Gerhardt : May be you like this Sunday collage

Cisca Zarmansyah : Before today, there never was a person doing this to me. You create a simple matter to look special. This is a special thing for me.

Cisca Zarmansyah : Thank you. I love it. I love you, my friend.

CieL- FreYa Ceastle : Hmm, he's so nice...















"I am me.
In all the world,
there is no one else exactly like me.
Everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine,
because I alone chose it --
I own everything about me:
my body,
my feelings,
my mouth,
my voice,
all my actions,
whether they be to others or myself.
I own my fantasies,
my dreams,
my hopes,
my fears.
I own my triumphs and successes,
all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me,
I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing,
I can love me
and be friendly with all my parts.
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know
-- but as long as I am friendly
and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully
look for solutions
to the puzzles and ways
to find out more about me.
However I look and sound,
whatever I say and do,
and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time
is authentically me.
If later some parts of how I looked,
sounded,
thought,
and felt
turn out to be unfitting,
I can discard that which is unfitting,
keep the rest,
and invent something new
for that which I discarded.
I can see,
hear,
feel,
think,
say, and do.
I have the tools to survive,
to be close to others,
to be productive,
and to make sense
and order out of the world of people
and things outside of me.
I own me,
and therefore,
I can engineer me.
I am me,
and I am okay."

VIRGINIA SATIR
(American Phychologist and Educator, 1916-1988)