On Aug 18, 2010, at 4:31 PM, wgm4u wrote: > Don't Sufi's have Mosques? Are you suggesting that the imam and his Sufi > followers are going to worship at the traditional Islamic Mosques a few > blocks away? > > I thought you said they were enemies?
A friend who was military brass in the "peace keeping" mission in Bosnia and later in Afghanistan as well said many if not most of the "Sufis", who are painted in the west as a type of 'open-minded, new age Muslim' sect have actually become mostly radicalized. But then again, it's not unusual for people to regress developmentally when a major stressor (i.e. military invasion and occupation) occurs. It's human nature to regress to lower levels of development in order to survive, like whacky fundamentalist forms of Islam or Americans resorting to X-tian fundamentalism and Right-wing madness. Of course this also means when we destabilize these Islamic countries, there will also be a persecution of "the other": peoples who are not Muslims, as in lower levels of development, you often lose the ability to see the world from "the other's" eyes. God knows what happens to the Mandaeans of Iraq after we decimated their country. Some have been relocated here, but many who remained were forced to leave or be persecuted. One of the last Gnostic sects destroyed by our folly...
