matoko kusanagi
2007-08-29 12:55:56
in humility, i will say the shayks, imans and mullahs of my faith could do more……..to make it clear that suicidebombers are abdicating Islam by their actions. I belive this has begun to happen.
But al-Islam is a consensus religion and this change must come from the grass roots up, unlike the top-down pronouncements of xian sects.
And do you think Spencers books help this? His ignorance and crude sophistry and complete lack of empirical scholarship comfirm all our paranoia about the “judeo-xian” west.
He is not helpful in the Dialog.
He does active harm by validating jihaadi exegesis and western stereotypes of muslims.
And he offers no solutions.
