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In the Islamic world,

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In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back … Read more

The sense of Islam

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The sense of Islam as a threatening Other – with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational – develops during the colonial period in what I called Orientalism. The study of the Other has a lot to do with the control and dominance of Europe and the West generally in the Islamic world. And it … Read more

These Muslim Brotherhood fronts

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These Muslim Brotherhood fronts – the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America – we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly … Read more

Every faith uses some

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Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better. Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand the truths of the faith and you come up with theology. Where as, Islam at a certain point said: we’ll use law. There are these four major, developed schools of Islamic jurisprudence. Francis … Read more