“As a Canadian Muslim, Irshad Manji never eats pork, never drinks alcohol and regularly reads the Koran. Otherwise she is Osama bin Laden’s worst nightmare.”
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America’s Muslim divide.
Deep differences remain between immigrant and black Muslim communities.
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Which way to Mecca?
Clifford Geertz read 50 of the new books on Islam.
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The Muslim war against Islamism.
“Islamic fundamentalism is a modern political invention: a grotesque revolutionary ideology that distorts the basic principles of religion in the name of liberating and unifying an oppressed nation.”
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War of ideas.
Paul Berman writes that Sayyid Qutb’s “deepest quarrel was not with America’s failure to uphold its principles. His quarrel was with the principles.”
Bin Laden is using the crisis with Iraq to dramatize the conflict he wants Muslims to embrace; he’s doing a bit of rebranding.
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Encountering Islam.
My review of The Place of Tolerance in Islam by Khaled Abou El Fadl and At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land by Yossi Klein Halevi is in the January/February issue of UU World magazine. Highly recommended.