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'Freedom' is a lie, period. You can make the case that even in the case of state-of-nature levels of freedom a la Hobbes or Rousseau, people are unable to be freed from their own vices, violence, hunger and so on. Just like people today are unable to free themselves from dedicating the majority of their lives to work for someone else's profit, receiving a lesser portion of the production.
Secularist are barely different, they are taught from the state-sponsored public school that the system of secularism is the most fair, most tolerant, most democratic and so on.
Check France even, Hollande required muslims to sign a "Chart of Laďcité" to prove their allegiance to the French Republic's official religion.
Musawah will likely lobby for him to get more media space, just like Edina Lekovic has achieved so much prominence. Yesterday in the aftermath of the van attack in London, she was brought over by CNN to speak on what she thought the public reaction had been like in the eyes of the Muslim community, not only cementing her previous influence as unappointed spokesperson of the American muslims, but now even extending to the British.
That's just the 'spirit of the times'. Same as how Christian liberalism was implemented over the course of the last two centuries, to the point that some national churches in Scandinavia have female priests (Biblically impossible) who promote homosexuality, and even host homosexual weddings in their premises like the Lutheran church of Denmark does.
That is the reason why I stopped doing a cubicle job. I realised that most of my life would be spent sitting on my arse on a chair in a small office, from sunrise to sundown performing a mechanical job. I had it better than some other more advanced countries, like Japan where people sometimes even sleep at their desks, and they are only 'freed' from their slavery by karoshi.
Americans are plagued by relativism which leads to total atomization as well as unofficial amateur theologians playing them for fools. Ever wondered by all the demented XIX and XX Century cults seem to have emerged from there? The mormons, the adventists and the branch davidians, the jehova's witnesses, the scientologists. That's what the free market and democracy do as ambiant values to religion.
Sunni Islam has the same problem that Protestantism had in Europe. Being disjointed and unable to have a proper structure, it is far easier to find lower and middle level authorities that can be coopted by the powers of the world to change progressively the orientation and ethos that are pushed on the laity. Check how Saudi money has made it so that religion in Bosnia and Albania has migrated slowly from the Ottoman take on Islam to a more wahhabi oriented line in some mosques.
On the contrary, Twelvers can rely on an unified leadership via Vilayat-al-Faqih which makes it so that sedition is harder to exert by just paying off a few imams. It would require a complete structural cooptation in order for them to suffer that fate, which can still be done, but takes longer. See the Catholic Church which opposed modernist trends for centuries but eventually was infiltrated to such a degree that Vatican II came to be and it submitted at last to the Lord of the World.
Fr. Malachi Martin detailed it.
With that in mind, this is the fate that awaits Sunni Islam:
Two coopted branches,
1) One of quasi-kharijite takfirism that emanates from the substantial amounts of money that are dumped from Gulf countries into cultural centres with the complete acquiescence of Western governments and pushing for mediatic attacks with the full knowledge of western intelligence
2) The network of Islamic feminism that pushes the acceptance of modernist ethics (human rights, women rights, freedom of choice) into younger women via international workshops, summits and highly publicised rebellious mosques like the ones that I listed in my OP (It's 5 mosques in less than 2 years, and I guarantee you that more will come, at an even faster rate), even going as far as campaigning for a 'sexual revolution' (mimicking the 1960s in the West) as the Berlin liberal mosque has stated.
My work has been to try to ellucidate where the latter stems from, since it has been neglected by most researchers who have correctly traced the rise of the Al-Saud family and the preminence of wahhabism over Arabia to the exact same people that are behind Islamic feminism: Western structures, primarily linked to Britain.
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