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Well, literal Islam is unfortunately a political ideology masquerading as a religion. You can't separate the politics from the "spirituals" in literal Islam. The more you're drawn to the literal flavor of religion, the more you are corrupted by the ideological views of the founder of Islam and his early followers and disciples i.e. the expansionism, imperialism, triumphalism ...etc

Does this mean that there's no good Muslims out there?

Of course not, there's plenty of them but the underlying problem is that the contemporary mainstream Sunni Islam has shifted from left to right by the early 70s thanks to the increasing influence of the Saudi petrodollar and the relentless exporting of the wahabist cultural product to predominantly Sunni Muslim countries and thus hard-line teachings of Sunni Islam became the norm and dominated the public sphere and one of its poisonous fruits sadly infected Paris over the weekend.



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