On 1/16/07, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fatah is not the left, however. ============================ Fatah - or rather, the PLO, which it dominates - still represents the Palestinian left, such as it is, against Hamas and the rest of the Islamist movement, which was set up in opposition to it.
So, that means Tel Aviv and Washington are supporting the left against Hamas, in your view? I very much doubt that's the way the Palestinians see it.
In reply to Daniel Davies, you note that "that Islamists in particular and Muslims in general can change", which is of course true, but the change you anticipate would almost always be, almost always is, in the direction of liberalism - analogous to the development of social democracy within the early socialist movement - and it presupposes a reduction in the level of national and social conflict.
Adoption and acceptance of homosexuality as an identity under capitalism depends on the degrees of economic development, urbanization, an increase in the proportion of people living as singles, and so on more than anything else. So, whether adoption and acceptance of homosexual identity will grow in the predominantly Islamic world (the Middle East, parts of Africa, and parts of Asia) and whether adoption and acceptance of it will be done under liberalism both depend on whether the predominantly Islamic world will develop capitalistically to approximate the development of the rich nations. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
