Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

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ISLAM AND THE FUTURE OF TOLERANCE A Dialogue SAM HARRIS MAAJID NAWAZ Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts • London, England 2015 Bereitge ...

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Harris Maajid, thank you for taking the time to have this conversation. I think the work that you’re doing is extremely im por t ...

2 seemed to be walking this tightrope. It was, in fact, a rather inauspicious fi rst meeting. In October 2010, I attended the In ...

3 maneuvers on the stage tonight— the claims you made about interpretations of scripture and the historical context in which cer ...

4 Nawaz Yes, I do remember that. I’m glad you re- minded me of it. I hadn’t made the connection with you. I’m also grateful you ...

5 Now, moving to the specifi cs of your question, I responded in the way I did because I felt you were implying that I was engag ...

6 human beings interpret it. At Intelligence Squared, being under the unnatural constraints of a debate motion, I asserted that ...

7 has been pop u lar ized by the or ga nized minority currently dominating the discourse. This is what I was really trying to ar ...

8 The Roots of Extremism Nawaz A comprehensive version of my story is avail- able in my autobiography, Radical, but I’ll sum- ma ...

9 I came of age at a time immediately preceding that shift in the collective consciousness. I experi- enced institutional racism ...

10 severely violent racist attacks. However, my griev- ances were frozen for a long time by the ideo- logical dogma that I came ...

11 no matter how evil or secular the target of Western power happens to be. Saddam Hussein was the per- fect example: he was a u ...

12 from the beginning of time, and they will exist until the end of time. Other communities face them as well, but this par tic ...

13 via German Muslims, to North Africa via French Muslims, and to South Asia via British Muslims of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangl ...

14 By then, I had resumed study for my degree in London, but I was traveling to Copenhagen every weekend to found the Danish- Pa ...