In Islam, it is no longer possible to ground a community in the mode of Totem and Taboo, through the murder of the father and the ensuing guilt which brings brothers together - hence Islams unexpected actuality. This problem is at the heart of the Muslim community of believers - the Umma - and accounts for the overlapping of the religious and the political (the community should be grounded directly in Gods word), as well as for the fact that Islam is at its best when it grounds the formation of a community out of nowhere, in the genealogical desert, as a kind of egalitarian revolutionary fraternity. No wonder, then, that Islam is so appealing to young men who find themselves deprived of family and social networks. Slovoj Zizek
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:33:05 +0000
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