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To: Olog-hai

Islam does not prescribe the government control the means of production. In fact, it’s pretty friendly to merchants and businessmen, more so, for instance, than medieval Christianity was.

Here’s a discussion by a Turkish Muslim.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/is-islam-a-socialist-religion—.aspx?pageID=449&nID=20301&NewsCatID=411

This is not to say that people haven’t tried to combine Islam and socialism, just as they’re tried to create Christian socialism.

Islam is by definition globally imperialist. It is not of itself socialist.


17 posted on 07/13/2015 2:24:58 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Nobody said Islam is “of itself socialist”. That does not mean that Islamic socialists do not exist or are not socialist, any more than national socialists are not socialist.

The opinions of any imam or non-clerical Muslim are as chameleonic as Islam itself.


18 posted on 07/13/2015 2:32:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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