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Yet it is ironic and discouraging that many non-Muslim, Western intellectuals--who unceasingly claim to support human rights--have become obstacles to reforming Islam. Political correctness among Westerners obstructs unambiguous criticism of Shariah's inhumanity. They find socioeconomic or political excuses for Islamist terrorism such as poverty, colonialism, discrimination or the existence of Israel. What incentive is there for Muslims to demand reform when Western "progressives" pave the way for Islamist barbarity?
-- Tawfik Hamid for The Wall Street Journal
Here is another strong indictment of the way too many liberals/progressives allow their arguably well-intentions notions of tolerance and post-modern cultural relativism to obscure and complicate matters when it comes to our conflict with radical Islam.
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-- Dr. Hamid, a onetime member of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamist terrorist group, is a medical doctor and Muslim reformer living in the West.
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Yet it is ironic and discouraging that many non-Muslim, Western intellectuals--who unceasingly claim to support human rights--have become obstacles to reforming Islam. Political correctness among Westerners obstructs unambiguous criticism of Shariah's inhumanity. They find socioeconomic or political excuses for Islamist terrorism such as poverty, colonialism, discrimination or the existence of Israel. What incentive is there for Muslims to demand reform when Western "progressives" pave the way for Islamist barbarity?
-- Tawfik Hamid for The Wall Street Journal
Here is another strong indictment of the way too many liberals/progressives allow their arguably well-intentions notions of tolerance and post-modern cultural relativism to obscure and complicate matters when it comes to our conflict with radical Islam.
( column )
-- Dr. Hamid, a onetime member of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamist terrorist group, is a medical doctor and Muslim reformer living in the West.