Quotes May 18

Moralism hands starving people a cookbook. @MattSmethurst

Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam. Harvard U Press, 1994. This explains in detail why Islamic society can never differentiate with separate organisations for various activities, since this is to break the primary unity of the Islamic umma (people) and so it can never escape from its original tribalism in which everyone is incorporated into the one Islamic tribe. A typical quote:
Because it sees social segmentation as negative, Islamism can envisage its return to the political arena only as sin... or a plot. The ideal Islamic society is defined as umma, an egalitarian community of believers. The political concept that expresses umma for Islamists is thus tawhid, "oneness," the negation both of social classes and of national, ethnic or tribal divisions. All differentiation is inherently a negation of umma. At the very worst, this leads to fitna, a rupture, separation, splitting of the community; this no doubt, is the supreme political sin. Segmentation is perceived as sin and not as a sociological fact. Which is why Islamist thought denies whatever may result from divisions, first and foremost the divisions of religious schools (the four traditional Sunni schools - Hanafi, Maliki, Safii, Hanbali - as well as the division between Shiism and Sunnism), but also the divisions between countries, ethnic groups, tribes, classes, social categories, interest groups, and so on. (Roy, p. 71.)
This also explains why Islamism cannot be a genuine political movement - a political party is by definition illegitimate (being a differentiation within the Islamic umma), hence it cannot campaign alongside other parties for electoral victory. The only solution is military victory and imposition of Islam by force.

People say-“I believe in a god of love-not a god who gets angry.” If you have a god who never gets angry, you can’t have a god of love, because if you never ever get angry about anything you don’t love anything. If you love and you see the thing you love threatened, you’re angry. -Timothy Keller@timkellernyc