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Sunday, June 20, 2004

The Good Side of Islam

As long as I'm on the topic of environmentalism …

Some of my fellow reactionary crackpots are starting to regard Islam as entirely evil. I disagree. They were valuable allies in fighting Communism and they are potential future allies in fighting environmentalism:

In addition, my uncle has tied the emigration of Hindus from certain deltic areas to erosion, arguing that Hindus have a mystical attachment to the land, while Muslims are more likely to think in the short term. I am inclined to dismiss such thinking out of hand, but, I do recall that one story that my father likes to tell is of the Bengali Muslim who goes to a Hindu area, and sits on a rock, at which point the local villagers attack him. The joke is this: they worship the rock! This sort of dismissal of nature worship is fine and good, but I can not but help think that without this sort of mentality the environmental situation in much of India would be even worse than it is, and the situation in Bangaldesh suffers from the lack of spiritual significance Muslim Bengalis see in their environment (American South Asians who are Hindu also have displayed and environmental awareness that I have found positively shocking for those who have immigrated from materially deprived Third World nations-the same sentiments are totally absent among immigrant Muslim South Asians).
Let's hope we can make them presentable by the time environmentalism has turned into a full-fledged totalitarian system.

There are other possible allies in the fight against the Greens in World War V. (The Cold War was World War III and we're now on World War IV.) The French, for example, already have some experience in dealing with Greenpeace.

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