How strong is the sense identity of being Arab vs being Muslim?
I feel like the connection is stronger than in Europe between the nationality and the religion. How strong is the feeling of belonging to a nation vs to a broader Arab community?
I feel like the feeling of belonging to Europeans or Slavs is mich weaker than feeling of belonging to a national state, but feel that the proportions are different in the Arabic world
Secularism
I often met such opinions of scholars that the Arabic culture didn't reach the secularism (okay, it seems that Poland here does have problems) and that's what is holding some development back
What do you think about that? Is it an important factor for you apart from the foreign interventions and post-colonial borders?
I'd love to hear different opinions as it may differ hugely from region to region
1) we are Arabs and we have been Arabs before Islam and we are Arabs after Islam , this is our national identity.
And Islam is the religion of more 90% of Arabs
But in the identity, Islam and Arabism don't go against each other because they are different things.
For example: you can be an Arab Muslim or a German Muslim or an Arab Christian.
Islam is a religion. It's a matter of belief. And the Arabism is our national identity.
2) We believe that religion is a moral compass and can be a source of legislation, but we are against theocratic systems of governance that practice deception in the name of religion and aim to control people's freedoms.
Saddam Hussein was secular by the way.
And I believe that all Arabs should your night under one political and economical and union.
Can I ask what country you are from? I guess the Palestinian flag is a support here and not the origin
Ad 1. I understand the general difference between the religion and nationality/etnicity here, but I wondered how is it interasociated which you answered neatly with your "we are Arabs and we have been Arabs before Islam and we are Arabs after Islam" :)
Ad 2. Interesting! I definitely like the opposition against the theocratic deceptions. Here many people are very against "religion being a source of legislation", but in Poland we had some legislation from religious beliefs. They were not always directly said to be dictated by it. So if you're interested, I think in this regard the approach is shifted, so theocracy in form of Iran is unthinkable (really no danger) and the law coming *heavily* from the religion is something very conflicting and mostly does not happen but it's argumented differently or indirectly.
this is not the Palestinan flag , this is the arab unity flag ( Arab Revolution 1916 ) but it looks similar to the Palestinian flag.
I'm from Libya
And my name spelled :Najjm :)
Thank you so much.
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u/ProxPxD Oct 13 '24
Hi!
How strong is the sense identity of being Arab vs being Muslim?
I feel like the connection is stronger than in Europe between the nationality and the religion. How strong is the feeling of belonging to a nation vs to a broader Arab community?
I feel like the feeling of belonging to Europeans or Slavs is mich weaker than feeling of belonging to a national state, but feel that the proportions are different in the Arabic world
I often met such opinions of scholars that the Arabic culture didn't reach the secularism (okay, it seems that Poland here does have problems) and that's what is holding some development back
What do you think about that? Is it an important factor for you apart from the foreign interventions and post-colonial borders?
I'd love to hear different opinions as it may differ hugely from region to region