secularism
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secularism is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 14, 2021 and July 01, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as ""he insists he is a defender of secularism""; “The realm of Jahiliyyah is not merely the West, with its secularism”. It most often appears alongside Britain, Congress, Gandhi.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 14, 2021
- Last seen: July 01, 2022
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- Britain (2 shared issues)
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- Congress (2 shared issues)
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- Gandhi (2 shared issues)
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- Germany (2 shared issues)
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- Italy (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- 1793 (1 shared issues)
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- 1821 (1 shared issues)
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- 1847 (1 shared issues)
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- 1928 Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact (1 shared issues)
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- 500 million and not one more (1 shared issues)
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- A Manifesto of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
For thirty years, since its independence, India had been a socialist state. Not the cool kind of socialist where you hold May Day parades and build ten zillion steel mills. The boring kind of socialist where the government makes you get lots of permits, then taxes you really heavily, and nothing really ever gets done. "Even today the Representation of the People Act requires all Indian political parties to pledge allegiance not only to the Constitution but also to socialism." The RSS and its collection of associated right-wing nationalist parties supported Hindu nationalism plus socialism. Their arch-enemy, the center-left-to-confused-mishmash Congress Party, supported secularism plus socialism. Non-socialism was off the table.
This kind of thing is why Modi, despite everyone else calling him a Hindu fanatic, insists he is a defender of secularism. He thinks everyone else keeps trying to give special rights based on religion in order to court minority groups and win elections, and he is saying the normal reasonable secular thing of "there are just some nationwide laws, everybody has to follow them, f@#k you if you don't want to". His enemies might point out that those nationwide laws will be instituted by a majority-Hindu populace; he accepts that, but doesn't care. You can't have a modern liberal democracy while constantly giving out special rights to any group you need votes from in this year's election.
The Qutbian enemy, therefore, is breathtakingly encompassing. The realm of Jahiliyyah is not merely the West, with its secularism, racism, imperialism, inequality, and sexual promiscuity. Nor is it simply Nasser and his henchmen, the brutes who ran torture chambers like Tora Prison. It encompasses all secular Arab governments—including those in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria. It also includes the ulema, the clergy who claim to speak for Islam, but support the lordship of man. It includes anyone who stands in the way of the establishment of an Islamic State. The enemy is the rest of the world.