살라피즘은 종교가 아닌 정치 조직이다. 소수자의 법칙에서 보듯이, 비타협적인 소수가 타협적인 다수를 압도하게 된다. 살라피스트들이 정권을 잡게 되면, 당신의 아내는 부르키니를 입게 된다.

 

아래 글은 나심 탈레브의 글 <We Don’t Know What We Are Talking About When We talk about Religion>의 일부이다.

 

No, for Baal’s sake, stop calling Salafism a “Religion”

 

The problem with the European Union is that the naive I.Y.I. (intellectuals yet idiots) bureaucrats and representatives of the talking “elites” (these fools who can’t find a coconut on Coconut island) are fooled by the label. They treat Salafism as just a religion –with its houses of “worship” — when in fact it is just an intolerant political system, which promotes (or allows) violence and refuses the institutions of the West –those that allow them to operate. Unlike Shiite Islam and Ottoman Sunnis, Salafis refuse to accept the very notion of minorities: infidels pollute their landscape. As we saw with the minority rule, the intolerant will run over the tolerant; cancer requires being stopped before it becomes metastatic.

 

IYIs, being naive and label driven, would have a different attitude towards Salafis if theirs was labelled as a political movement, similar to Nazism, with their dress code an expression of such beliefs. Banning burkinis may become palatable for them if it were made similar to banning swastikas: these people you are defending, young IYI, will deprive you of all the rights you are giving them, should they ascend to power and would force your spouse to wear a burkini.

 

 

    Some beliefs are largely decorative, some are functional (they help in survival); others are literal. And to revert to our metastatic Salafi problem: when one of these fundamentalists talks to a Christian, he is convinced that the Christian is literal, while the Christian is convinced that the Salafi has the same oft-metaphorical concepts to be taken seriously but not literally –and, often, not very seriously. Religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, and Shiite Islam, evolved (or let their members evolve in developing a sophisticated society) precisely by moving away from the literal –for, in addition to the functional aspect of the metaphorical, the literal doesn’t leave any room for adaptation .

 

So not only Salafism is not a religion, but it is not even a workable political system; just something someone came up with to imprison people in the seventh century Arabian Peninsula.