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I'm really excited to announce that my article, "Looking East: Perfectionism, Public Reason Confucianism, and the Construction of Islamicate Public Reason" is now available in "Just Accepted" view in The Journal of Politics.
Joseph J. Kaminski
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Joseph J. Kaminski
@profjkaminski
Professor, Dept. of Pol. Sci. and IR, International University of Sarajevo and
Research Associate & Mentorship Program Coordinator at The Ummatics Institute.
- As a Political Scientist, what I take from this, esp. the stuff about 'the revolution being over,' is that he is positioning himself as a type of anti-Khomeini, for whom the revolution was permanent. To me it sounds like he is trying to let everyone know that this is not only 1/I found this clip by the head of Syria's transitonal government Ahmed al Sharaa in conversation with documentary filmmaker Joe Hattab very enlightening, so I added English subtitles for a Western audience. Particularly noteworthy points: -Sharaa says he considers the
00:00 - It's been like 48 hours since Assad was ousted, and secular liberals are already complaining because of a shahada flag despite the fact that half of Europe has explicit Christian iconography embedded in their official national flags. 1/2
- When I first converted to Islam, I never understood how so many Muslims would one day be fooled by dajjal when all the signs will be so obvious. Witnessing the 'shock' that so many Muslims have expressed over Elon's unprincipled hypocrisy, now it all makes sense. It really does.As I said earlier this week, “decolonization”, “from the river to the sea” and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide. Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.
- And pundits wonder why much of the Muslim world continues to reject liberal institutionalism and the notion of "universal human rights." You don't exactly need a PhD in IR to see what an obvious double standard these Western-made institutions hold non-Western people to.
- It's fun watching these people cannibalize themselves. Here we have Trumpian Christo-fascist Auron MacIntyre crying because Hindu Trump ultraloyalist Kash Patel isn't taking his oath on Auron's preferred holy book. Another reminder of Qur'an 59:14 which informs us that 1/
- So let me get this straight: a French cop murders an Arab teen, people riot all over the country in protest, and the conclusion reached by the far Right is that 'Sharia law' is the problem?! These people would blame their baguettes being stale on 'Sharia law' if they could.
- Replying to @profjkaminski"Their malice for each other is intense: you think they are united, yet their hearts are divided. That is because they are a people with no real understanding." Just more evidence of why we need to look to our own holy book for guidance during these times: the answers are there.
- Replying to @profjkaminskiRather, Syria's development will be driven by institutions rather than slogans, vengeance, or 'resistance.' I think this is great. He still needs to articulate more concrerely what role Sharia will play in the new Syria. How will it shape institutions & the notion of justice?
- Replying to @profjkaminskiis the Syrian Rev., not the Iranian Rev., but in many ways, its direct antithesis. That's my take at least. Syria will not become the I.R. Iran, it will not be an on-going revolutionary project, and it will not be sectarian or driven by a Supreme Leader type entity. 2/
- I married outside my ethnic group. Here's my quick take: It can work but requires both parties to be willing to learn from each other and a common understanding that there will be (a lot of) cultural misunderstandings. I don't think it can work for very culturally attached peopleMuslim parents will say “we need unity in the ummah” but refuse to let their children marry outside their ethnic group
- Replying to @profjkaminskiIf you are a Muslim social scientist and you are not analyzing current events through a Qur'anic lens, you're just as just as lost as these people are, perhaps even more so. This is why I can't understand how Muslim nation states simply ignore Qur'an 5:51. What are you all doing?
- I genuinely wonder if any other religious studies area (Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, etc.) has as many non-believers become experts in the field whose main purpose is to trash the entire tradition and its orthodox followers as Islamic studies has of non-Muslims who do this?
- To all the non-Assadist Ahmed al-Sharaa detractors: What exactly in terms of foreign policy strategy should he be doing instead of what he is currently doing? People like to complain about what he has been doing but never seem to offer any realistic alternative plan of their own.
