No, Professor Ahmed, the Founders Were Not So Fond of Islam
The problem is that people are speaking from experience, their own observations and recorded events, unabashedly basing their opinions on what is distopian matter of fact rather than a utopian yearning for what might be and an adoption of cultural equivalence as an axiom rather than a lemma.
You know, the Americans Founding Fathers even had no appreciation for the finer points of the divine right of the King. They founded an egalitarian society with a plethora of inconvenient civil liberties and obstructive individual rights, where people had a right to offend each other, daring to say what they liked and respecting each other enough to say what they thought. Why, they even had the temerity eventually to extend equality to blacks (abid) and, worse, to women. Had they no conscience, no shame, no honour?
You may admire Dr. Ahmed, but one tree does not a forest make. I look around and I don’t even see a small wood.
