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Palestine would have been completely gobbled up if not for the principled anti-imperialist revolutionary liberation theology of the Islamic Revolution.
Communists saying that religion is always backwards just shows these "anti-imperialist" dont see us as human.
Hopefully that's not what you took from what I said and my subsequent messages. (I didn't downvote you)
You are right - a lot of people come from parts of the world that if it weren't for Muslims there would have been no formal liberation as we know it from colonisers.
On the other hand, what you said could be flipped. One could argue some of those who are religious see a non-believer as less than human because they (the non-believer) deserve not to enter their heaven, and lead a godless (in their eyes) life on earth. Indeed the purge of socialism in the Global South was partly using this metric of equating communism with anti-theism; the Jakharta Method with the killing of half a million Indonesians being a famous example.
So if both religious and non-religious folks could see each other less than human then the common denominator here is not the religiousness, or lack of it, but some other material condition in play that leads to that view?
What you need to decide for yourself is those who see you less than human is what material conditions lead them to that awful conclusion eg their western chauvinism vs their self-claimed marxism?
No no. I replied because you're one of the few reasonable replies here.
I agree, the contradiction is imperialism and it will use whatever methods available to maintain itself.
Apologies (and thank you)! I misunderstood what you said. I will leave my reply as is for those that are still lurking around.
No problem and thank you for the conversation.
Don't get me wrong, lots of times religions have been used as a weapon, like in Indonesia as you said but we could really talk about so many.
But to use that and say all types of Islam are equally reactionary and to blanket criticize religion generally is just xenophobic chauvanism. People in the Lemmy version of this thread are saying pretty heinous things and theres still a lot of questionable posts in this lemmygrad one too.
The development of Resistance Islam as part of Khomeinist revolution in Islamic politics and thought is objectively good for all people on earth, Muslims and not Muslims. One cannot be Pro-Palestine and think such things about religious people and faiths generally. Thats my only point here.
And to drive the point really home: the genocidal Israel is a secular project.