Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
55 wing approach, but the “fellow- travelers,” or the regressive leftists, have adopted it. Allow me to elaborate. If you’re a M ...
56 fi rst stage in the empowerment of any minority community is the liberation of reformist voices within that community so that ...
57 Nawaz Now, as to the view that this is how anyone who had suffered imperialism or colonialism would behave: no, it’s not. Ent ...
58 factors in radicalization: a grievance narrative, whether real or perceived; an identity crisis; charis- matic recruiters; an ...
59 Nawaz Yes, a peculiar trait of holding certain symbols as sacred and intimately tied to one’s own identity is that they can o ...
60 will always be there. It ’s the nature of life. What we can change is the ideological lens, or the tribal na- ture of one’s i ...
61 fusion for our readers. In En glish, the term “fun- damentalist” has been inherited from a specifi c strand of American Chris ...
62 literalism.” (In fact, in many instances, some of which we will address, a purely literal interpreta- tion leads to a surpris ...
63 this happens for po liti cal reasons, not because of the strength of the arguments. It happened at the Council of Nicaea, whe ...
64 So, my fi rst point was that just because some- thing is the way it is today, that doesn’t mean it’s what it was yesterday or ...
65 Harris The tensions you’ve been describing are fa- miliar to all religious moderates, but they seem especially onerous under ...
66 Moderates seem unwilling to grapple with the fact that all scriptures contain an extraordinary amount of stupidity and barbar ...
67 manage it. This is why the approach of a group like the Islamic State holds a certain intellectual appeal (which, admittedly, ...
68 the extent that they’re certain that their scripture was written or inspired by the Creator of the uni- verse, demand it too. ...
69 fi rst met, I wasn’t casting judgment on you person- ally. Simply living with the moderate’s dilemma may be the only way forw ...
70 anything we say could apply to Judaism and Chris tian ity. But a par tic u lar strand of a politi- cized version of the Musli ...
71 ture secular, demo cratic society. It can sometimes be very hard to make a mental leap and put your- self into the mind of th ...
72 the dozen— and gleefully posting videos attesting to the enormity of their sadism online. Far from being their version of a M ...
73 concern than the enslavement and obliteration of countless people throughout the Muslim world. As you say, even having a conv ...
74 historical, and moral perspectives. Quentin Skinner, of the Cambridge School, wrote a sem- inal essay called “Meaning and Und ...
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