You say "Islam" has leaders. By which you seem to mean that there is one Islam and its leaders are all some kind of hive mind.
Because it's outlawed and therefore has none (at least legal ones) in a good chunk of the Middle East?
And actually, US legal theory does not argue that we are all equal. The original constitution left it to the state legislatures to elect the Federal Senate and counted blacks as 3/5 a person. In modern times, what political equality we have ignores that the US system favors wealth and wealth favors economic inequality.
Even if we presume some nebulous "Islam" has leaders, that no more means that the leaders are all retrograde bearded religious fanatics like Khomeini or Osama Bin Laden than all Christian pastors are like Fred Phelps or the leaders of the Christian Identity movement.
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Date: 6/8/09 22:59 (UTC)Because it's outlawed and therefore has none (at least legal ones) in a good chunk of the Middle East?
And actually, US legal theory does not argue that we are all equal. The original constitution left it to the state legislatures to elect the Federal Senate and counted blacks as 3/5 a person. In modern times, what political equality we have ignores that the US system favors wealth and wealth favors economic inequality.
Even if we presume some nebulous "Islam" has leaders, that no more means that the leaders are all retrograde bearded religious fanatics like Khomeini or Osama Bin Laden than all Christian pastors are like Fred Phelps or the leaders of the Christian Identity movement.