Assalam alaykum Brother, I'm not saying that you personally need to be reminded of the obvious, but I have noticed that politics, being emotive as it is, can bring out the nafs, which can assert itself at its worst, so it is just a precautionary statement--which certainly applies to myself if to no one else--while at the same time coming into agreement in principle with the case being made. And I do get your point about a political consciousness in its wider sense. OK, Brother? Wassalam