Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
15 curity offi cers. I was blindfolded, had my hands tied behind my back, and was taken to state security headquarters in Cairo, ...
16 my master’s degree in po liti cal theory at the London School of Economics, I cofounded and went on to chair Quilliam, the wo ...
17 us refer to these people as “jihadists.” Then there is a larger circle of Islamists who are more po liti- cally motivated and ...
18 given interpretation of Islam on society. When I say “jihadism,” I mean the use of force to spread Islamism. Islamism and jih ...
19 which sub- category it fi ts into above: that which seeks to spread Islamism. These are only my defi nitions; in my life work ...
20 because they’re violent. The Islamic State controls huge chunks of territory, and it can raise millions of dollars a day thro ...
21 Islamist group could muster only about 25 percent in dedicated support. Harris What percentage of Muslims worldwide are Isla ...
22 cutting off the hands of thieves, and so forth. I’m not sure what to think about a society in which 15 percent of people vot ...
23 which 15 to 20 percent of the people vote for Islamists is a society facing a severe identity crisis, still struggling to co ...
24 movement against the po liti cal Islamist group Jamat- e- Islami in the Indian subcontinent during the partition of Pakistan. ...
25 Nawaz Oh, many things. Let’s take Egypt again as an example. Egypt is a conservative religious country, yet the vast majority ...
26 the state to impose their religion, because they want to retain the right to have their own understanding of what this religi ...
27 the other. Conservative Muslims may be our allies for the former but not the latter. This puts reform- minded liberal Muslims ...
28 challenge those who resort to Islamist or other forms of cultural extremism and to promote sec- ular demo cratic counter- mes ...
29 our conversation as a prime example of how the fog can be lifted if we simply put aside the hyperbole and ditch the posturing ...
30 different. For example, I think Muslims have tended to integrate better in Ame rica than they have in Britain. I don’t want o ...
31 a full- blown religious fanatic, so long as one doesn’t try to impose the fruits of one’s fanat i cism on others. Nawaz Inde ...
32 Finally, some remarks on the term “moderate” Muslim. After the Islamic State, even al- Qaeda appears “moderate.” The term is ...
33 To learn that 78 percent of British Muslims think anyone who published the Danish cartoons should have been punished— and su ...
34 context where up to 1,000 British Muslims may have gone to fi ght for the Islamic State. Harris Would you say that Britain is ...
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