What people are those ? Where are these anti-capitalist revolutions taking place (besides your imagination?). Don't confuse reform with revolution. Corporate Capitalism is evolving, that's true ... Wealth is being redistributed ... this is an organic process, not a coercive one. Elitists would like to insulate themselves from it, but are finding that impossible.
When people protest and sand against sides of capitalism, they are considered in a way standing against capitalism.
The pure form of capitalism is the rule of those who has capital , whom are elitist, when we strip them away from their power more and more, capitalism is declining and the world is moving towards a more just system.
The Islamic Elite are hoping to hide behind Jihadist extremism, but that's a losing bet.
There is no such things as Islamic elites, elites don't care about religion nor any rules, if they did then the world would be a much different place.
Ruling over Muslims doesn't mean that you care about Islam, rather only means that Islam is a tool to ease the people into submitting to your rule, just like any other religion, and any type of ideology that might be present.
Islam is finding itself more and more constrained as the modern world closes in on it ... everywhere it turns it must confront and compete. In doing so, it is adopting the capitalistic methods that confront it, and will soon find itself homogenized into the modern world. No doubt there will be fundamentalist hold outs, but they will be isolated, ineffective, and increasingly unpopular.
You see, as Islam grows, it matures ...
Islam is valid for all times and places because it adopts and can hold many forms that fit the time and place being.
All in all, your points about the topic are infact the exact same as mine, simply we use different terms to describe it.
We have a different definition of "multiculturalism". My definition implies tolerance of other lifestyles independent of race, in fact the whole concept of race plays a small part as people of the same race can have different cultures (surprise, surprise).
That does not contradict the fact that the Muslim world is mutlicultural.
In reality Islam covered and integrated into many cultures and ideologies all over the history. Persian world is a good example.
Muslim countries were not secular at all
The bringing of the rule of god in all sides of Islam does not cancel secularism.
Islam is in a way secular and democratic because sheikhs do not have politcal authorities in it, but elected caliphs do.
Yet worshiping god is present all over because pleasing god is by good deeds and good leadership is worshiping god, justice and fairness of the state is worshiping god.
Secularism does not mean atheism, secularism simply means that being a sheikh or a priest does not mean you have any authorities for it.
The rest of the points are simply no where near factual.
@Syph
Keep calling something rubbish does not make your points correct, nor does it make you seem superior or smarter.
but circumcision for circumcision's sake is as bad as female genital mutilation IMO. Hacking off the foreskin or clitoris of babies and children is a disgusting practice.
Islam does not have female circumcisions, only males, and it has many known health reasons which are far more present in southern half of the world.
And for the entire idea of circumcision of girls, it is in fact mostly present in Christian not Muslim countries and areas.
So if you want to address it you should address it by it self, and not collapse the argument by associating it with Islam.
That is the main reason why there is rarely an agreement. Because you associate problems with certain ideologies or cultures or religions even if it is no where near factual. Which turns the argument from addressing issues in the world to simply attacks, personal or on groups.
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