Can You Be Muslim And Leftist?
Friday, October 1st, 2010the left has always defended a lot of ideas on divorce, contraception, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution or pornography. Besides all the standards are called into question since May 1968 will take care of freeing society from its shackles, family, couples, religion, … associations grow, sects also during the years Mitterand, as weakened the weight of traditional morality, with a strong religious, sexual freedom has gradually emerged as a fundamental dimension of the French left. remind us that the right for young adults to have sex together in their chambers students was, really, one of the first requirements of students from the University of Nanterre, which led directly to the events of May 1968. Sociology students at Nanterre, led by a German 22 years, born in France and the red hair, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, successfully used sexual oppression as a symbol of political oppression. Mitterrand aapprouvé over thirty executions of FLN militants between 1956 and 1957 during the war in Algeria when he was Minister of Justice said an investigation of''Point''. This makes one wonder about his sincerity by abolishing the death penalty.
Yes, without agreeing with all the thoughts of the left.
I've got a similar question: can we be left and Muslim? Is historically anti-clerical left …
Difficult question … because it is true that the left has very different ideas from those of Islam (the law on abortion was passed by the left [under a rightist government], ACAP has been voted as Jospin, the abolition of the death penalty was passed under Mitterrand … etc. …). The line about it is more conservative and this is evident when one listens to a religious fundamentalist (whether Muslim or not), his speech is closer to that of the far right than the left … And I would add that the left and extreme left have more anticlerical than on the right. But at the same time , Left advocates the value solidarity that all religions should approve … That everyone to make their choice by ignoring religion and society by showing he wants.
You know there are many policies that are in a party without support all ideas. In my case I find myself in both the humanism of the Left and some values of the right. Nan chui no centrist by cons …
thank you for writing these truths that the son of immigrants and migrants often forget, François Mitterrand was a bourgeois who came from the far right and fascist patriotic traditionalist at the time of the Popular Front. After the war and the defeat of fascism was blithely past the left-wing ideology was more conducive to allow it to take power. It enrageat when General de Gaulle's Fifth Republic which had removed him from power long. Elected president of the republic he ruled as monarch.
The issue is broader than that, I rather ask 'Can we be left thinking (whatever religion)? "Because the left is profondemment intolerant religions. Do not forget the phrase "Religion is the opium of the people", yeah gall to be his religion has to have an ideal that goes beyond the laws and consciences ambrigadement desired by Marxist ideologies. In France, extremism investigations to his atheism was the basis of numerous anti-nineteenth and twentieth century, among others: – In the nineteenth century Jacobins impose the regime of terror in order to "nationalize" the clergy. The strength of the Church against the new dictatorship will make her first target. – The laws of separation of church and state (which allowed all religions – then Catholic, Protestant and Jewish – on the French territory to be treated equal, making France the time a real secular state that respects all religions) was designed to steal. You can also add the law on religious signs, abortion, PACS (whose purpose is to destroy the family unit Quemener well by the right wing received strong support from the left as it allows to weaken the foundations religions.