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this is a fairly important article in the current New Republic, if more than a little lengthy. Paul Berman, writer in residence at New York University, scans the works of Tariq Ramadan, a Muislim scholar who has become prominent in Europe and has just had features about him in the New York Times Magazine and the New York Review of Books. He casts himself as a bridge between Western and Islamic cultures, but Berman makes a pretty persuasive case that while he renounces violence he still provides an underpinning for a fairly radical version of Islamism.
"He casts himself as a bridge between Western and Islamic cultures, but Berman makes a pretty persuasive case that while he renounces violence he still provides an underpinning for a fairly radical version of Islamism."
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, by the way. This is the second front in the war against Totalitarian Islam. And an important one.
Maybe the most important one. Funny how often people think a battle of ideas should be waged with arms and armies.
ReplyDeleteyou gotta check out Stephen Suleyman Schwartz's reaction to this article on jewcy.com . I can't link it because I've tried before, it gets cut off but its called
ReplyDelete"whose afraid of Paul Berman?"