What’s wrong with being a desert dweller?
I mean yeah, basically, the idea of being the Mahdi and convincing the desert dwelling followers of Mohammad to follow you as a revolutionary army was a big trope for a while, king of the khyber rifles type books were full of it. Dune just rewrites Paul from being actual English aristocracy to being a near identical space facsimile, likewise Bedouin and Muslim stereotypes and tropes common in adventure lit make the Fremen. Big bad is mostly anti German tropes from ww1 era novels; corpulent, perverted, and sneaky.
The great imagination in it comes from taking this fairly standard formula and going totally crazy with sand worms and Duncan clones.
Though when you look at it like this it’s obvious liet kynes is actually the linchpin of his creative vision and everything else is formed around that character
I surmise it’s a socioeconomic prejudice. Like the American equivalent to the slur “hick” or the epithet “back woods”.
I guess, but Moses spent 40 years wandering the desert and he doesn’t get shit for it.
I say unto thee, takest the high ground, for then your foe shall know it’s over before they strike
Book of Anakin, 2:7
He was pretending to be a regular dude named Ben. Probably not the best example of being known…
Phase Seven: Executed because leaving Islam is punishable by death
You forgot the phases of going back.
“Shit it’s rough out here, better stick with what I know.”
Jesus was a desert dweller too. And so were the Jews. And the Egyptians, though their thing kinda got phased out. Did Joseph Smith ever spend time in a desert? The Buddha sat under a tree, but whatever.
Yeah, turns out Christianism and Judaism are great. Funnily enough, the guy that sat under a tree was the one who said something in the lines of “you know, check it out if it makes sense before joining in”.
Looks like toasting under the sun and eating sand is no good to people’s brains.
Islam is just a fork of Christianity which is itself a fork of Judaism.
Humans been forking well before git was invented
