Hello,
I am not able to find any Muslim forums that allow immediate posting so I am posting here with the intention of reaching Muslims.
The Coronavirus has changed Islam in 100 days more than globalization had done so over 100 years.
A not insignificant number of Muslims have waged war, either verbally or militarily, for having divergent opinions and practices.
Yet with few exceptions the whole world has stopped practicing Orthodox Islam. No more Jummah, Umrah, or Taraweeh prayers during Ramadan.
If you polled the faithful 6 months ago the majority would have said those who make the proclamations that have been made in the past 2 months were engaging in Bidah, religious innovation.
What’s more is that the virus stands to kill relatively few Muslims due to the youthfulness of the Islamic World. Rough back of the envelope estimates would probably put the excess mortality rates for a 12 month unrestrained spread of SARS-CoV-2 at 0.1-0.4% of the population.
To put that in perspective that is probably a return to death rates that prevailed sometime between the 80s and early 2000s.
Even more shocking is the high tolerance for death in the Islamic World. For example a nation like Pakistan has such an elevated infant mortality rate that if it were to drop its rate to match Indonesia, a country of similar economic development, 200,000+ fewer babies would die each year. Coronavirus unrestrained would probably claim fewer lives than that in Pakistan and even the more aggressive estimates would put it at perhaps double that figure.
I am left here shaking my head in disbelief in how fast this all turned out.
I am not able to find any Muslim forums that allow immediate posting so I am posting here with the intention of reaching Muslims.
The Coronavirus has changed Islam in 100 days more than globalization had done so over 100 years.
A not insignificant number of Muslims have waged war, either verbally or militarily, for having divergent opinions and practices.
Yet with few exceptions the whole world has stopped practicing Orthodox Islam. No more Jummah, Umrah, or Taraweeh prayers during Ramadan.
If you polled the faithful 6 months ago the majority would have said those who make the proclamations that have been made in the past 2 months were engaging in Bidah, religious innovation.
What’s more is that the virus stands to kill relatively few Muslims due to the youthfulness of the Islamic World. Rough back of the envelope estimates would probably put the excess mortality rates for a 12 month unrestrained spread of SARS-CoV-2 at 0.1-0.4% of the population.
To put that in perspective that is probably a return to death rates that prevailed sometime between the 80s and early 2000s.
Even more shocking is the high tolerance for death in the Islamic World. For example a nation like Pakistan has such an elevated infant mortality rate that if it were to drop its rate to match Indonesia, a country of similar economic development, 200,000+ fewer babies would die each year. Coronavirus unrestrained would probably claim fewer lives than that in Pakistan and even the more aggressive estimates would put it at perhaps double that figure.
I am left here shaking my head in disbelief in how fast this all turned out.