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| Debate: Is Islam Dominated by Radicals? |
| 2008-04-19 |
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| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #2 Islam is dominated by radicals That's a Trick Question, Right? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-04-19 20:16 |
| #1 89 page pdf Islam is dominated by radicals Moderator: Robert Siegel For the motion: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Paul Marshall, Asra Nomani Against the motion: Reza Aslan, Richard Bulliet, Edina Lekovic RESULTS Before the debate: For the motion: 46% Against the motion: 32% Undecided: 22% After the debate: For the motion: 73% Against the motion: 23% Undecided: 4% ASRA NOMANI Like I said before, I mean this is not a conversation about the majority of Muslims. We’re talking about whether Islam is dominated. Dominated to me means institutional Islam, it means the people who are running our mosques, the people who are running our—our organizations. It means, this establishment that it call Wahabism Incorporated, that is basically not just, you know, a pocket, an empty—an empty anecdote. It is an empire out there in the world that is defining our community. This isn’t a popularity contest about whether we want moderate expression of Islam or not. This is about who’s running our communities. And I can tell you that institutional Islam is representing a radical ideology that may not represent what most of Muslims believe, but at the end of the day, it’s not worth the trouble for most Muslims to battle them. I can tell you from the trenches, the struggle to battle that kind of institutional Islam is painful. You lose status, you get death threats, you get all sorts of abuse. And this is what happens whenever you challenge the authorities, and right now the authorities represent radical Islam. |
| Posted by: KBK 2008-04-19 19:35 |