It is my hypothesis that modern day Islamism represents a step towards the severance between Islam and the State. This is because Islamism upends the historical, de-centralized, partitioned relationship between Islam and the State by turning the clerics into agents of secular power. While in the short term these clerics certainly utilize the State to perpetuate laws rooted in the holy texts, in the long term, their entrance into the State structure essentially renders them machiavellian apparatchiks, disconnecting them from their religious base and rendering them into ideologues.
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends,
it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute new Government.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
An assertion
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