Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.
Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
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