When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
Interpretation
Suppressing a belief system can lead to its extremism and radicalization.
The quote highlights the dangers of attempting to quell religious nationalism through forceful suppression. Instead of eliminating radical beliefs, such actions often drive adherents into more extreme positions, resulting in a cycle of conflict and underlying tension. This statement encourages a deeper understanding of the motivations behind nationalism and the need for constructive dialogue rather than oppressive tactics.
In practice
In a speech about conflict resolution, one might say, 'As Reza Aslan points out, suppressing religious nationalism often leads to its radicalization.'
As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.
[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.
Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.
I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.
Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.
Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live.
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.