The idea that the Palestinian people have only been able to persist because of their religion is ridiculous to me. They are resisting because colonialism, apartheid and genocide are very bad things to which nobody would want to be subjected, not because of Islam. If Palestinians were atheists, is he suggesting that they wouldn’t have the strength or the will to resist? Would their lack of a belief in the supernatural turn them into doormats for Isn’treal?
I like Hakim’s content, but his position on religion is quite frustrating. He is a Muslim first and a Marxist second. Also, Joram van Klaveren is still a right-winger.
This is straight up proselitysm. From supposed ML to people he is trying to expose to ML. Wew.
How do i put it… it cast shadow of doubt on his materialist analysis, since he clearly is not a consistent materialist.
Also his recent content is pretty disappointing, instead of even reuploading his old videos which were pretty useful he’s doing debunks of random wackjobs.
He’s good at reading books and sharing knowledge, idk about doing his own analysis.
Looking at the OP, he’s got kinda problem with that too, now. And even reading and sharing will necessarily be filtered through his brain.
Sure, but it looks like he is reading Islamic works and sharing information from them. I wonder how familiar he is with anti-theist arguments and works.
He would have to be, at least a little bit. He is extremely well read on Stalins early works and Lenin’s later works, both of which touch on the topic of secularism, atheism, and the role of religion and society.
So at least by proxy he must have some understanding.