Crude and brutal ideologies can be promoted through sophisticated, subtle means. This is hardly surprising. The less obvious the worth of a particular cause the more its advocates might grow reliant on cognitive and emotional manipulation.
Such is the case with the Islamic Education & Research Academy, iERA, who I’ve touched on several times and meant to explore properly. Their vision is one of cruel religious supremacy but as shocking and archaic as this sounds the means by which they advance it are modern and ingenious. These are not the medieval theocrats of Western imaginings. They offer Dawah 2.0. [Back Towards The Locus] Read more