Shia Islam is like what? 10% of global Islam, and I am not even going to argue bc I am not Shia.
Secondly, lineage means nothing in Islam. Yes, people can claim higher status in social hierarchy but not by bloondlines or divine rights. Only by personal effort and achievement (whether in civil realm or the religious).
Anyways...thanks for the response.
True that. There's no "christian" or "hindu" or "buddhist" countries in the world anymore. Secular-liberalism destroyed every other religion except Islam. There are only
Islamic countries remaining on global level (From Algeria to Saudi Arabia to Nigeria (Muslim states) to Indonesia to Pakistan etc etc))
Shows the success of Islam on ideological level (forgetting the negatives or positives debate)---no?
Fact of the matter is that Islam has, uptil now, successfully defeated liberal-secularism on global level literally everywhere both giant ideologies/lifestyles came in contact with. The
ONLY religious-cultural force to have done so successfully. Even rich, well-off Muslim societies (GCC, Malaysia, Turkey etc) are very
practicing of Islam and Islam plays a central role in these countries' politics, laws, family life, social values, public sphere, and so on. Forget the gigantic Islamic world, even Muslims throughout the Western world...the heart of secular liberalism and free conscience--are
relatively still very religious despite being highly educated, urbanized, integrated, and wealthy (example U.S Muslims).
Christianity/Judaism/Hindusim etc were easy...secularism/liberalism ran over them and made them pretty much irrelevant...but Islam, as I said, absolutely decimated liberal-secularism everywhere it faced. Hell, even in countries that were liberal/secular before, Islam changed the entire face of culture and lifestyle within a generation after decolonization. In Turkey, where secularism was actually
forced down---Islam eventually won out and gain public prominence slowly....
(Note: I know Turkey is "liberal" compared to Pakistan and so on. Variations
within global Islam exist, as to be expected---but
relative to non-Muslims---my post stands factual and unchallenged).
I know more about Indonesian than you. Trust me....
Lived there for four years, know TONS of people from there...
I am very familiar with Indonesian flavor of Islam. They are not liberal-seculars like Frenchmen or even Americans or Latin Americans. A vast majority of Indonesians are traditional Muslims just like vast majority of people in Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt etc etc are your average Muslims. Not fanatics but not liberals either.
What do YOU know about Indonesia? I bet you have never even visited Bali, let alone living in real Indonesia.
Indonesian political system is rooted in "religious nationalism" as one scholar of political science working with us called it. Its not a "secular" country....
Google stats on Indonesians' views on various issues before you write more empty rhetoric. I don't want to spoon feed you
For a starter:
72% of Indonesians support making Shari'ah/Quran the official law of the land
This is PEW's survey for 2013-14....and Indonesian society have only became
more Islamic since then.
And this is not a random stat either. Survey after survey, study after study, research paper after research paper----all reveal the same pattern. An Islamic country with deeply religious Islamic society and culture
"BuT fOrGeT FAcTs!!! YOu DoNT KnOW AnyThiNg. InDonEsIa is SecUlaRRRR!!!" says dumb liberals trying to hide facts for their own personal agendas (not you per say---but many "Indonesians" on this thread
)
Indonesia already has more than 442 legal ordinances inspired by Shari'ah implemented throughout the country (Not just Aceh).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/world/asia/indonesia-sharia-law-aceh.html
Liberals think Shari'ah is like ISIS type butchery. And hence liberals ALWAYS keep losing since they dont even understand what they are arguing against.