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August 23, 2006

What's A Liberal Muslim To Do??

by Armed Liberal at August 23, 2006 6:56 AM

Got a trackback and email from an interesting blog post. Over at 'Eteraz', blogger Ali Eteraz is asking who in the West liberal Muslims should ally with...

Should American-Muslims like me just become Democrats? How does being a Democrat jive with the things I am most active and capable in: 1) exposing Muslim extremists, 2) not being in bed with Muslim tyrants, 3) engaging the Muslim world with the underlying assumption that Enlightenment thinking whether through intellectual smuggling or through blatant polemic needs to be made part of the Muslim discourse...

Go read the rest. He points out the problems that someone like him - a liberal Muslim - faces in picking sides in the current political puzzle.

I'd pay attention to what he says; I'll bet there are more people like him, and that when we win them all over we'll be doing a whole lot better.

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Tracked: August 24, 2006 2:39 AM

Shalom and Salaam from Cozy Corner

Excerpt: Eteraz is someone worth keeping an eye on, and an ear to. If the existential struggle between the West and Islamic extremists is going to end without obliteration on one side or the other, it will be thanks to folks like Eteraz. No pressure.

Comments

#1 from the_baliyya at 3:32 pm on Aug 23, 2006

what will be the outcome of this maysir?
;-)

#2 from Karl Gallagher at 11:40 pm on Aug 23, 2006

Hmpf. If I can't find a political party to represent my exact views why should a foreigner expect to be so lucky?

#3 from PD Shaw at 12:11 am on Aug 24, 2006

Amen, Karl.

My only dissapointment with the link is to learn that Ali Eteraz doesn't blog on foreign policy issues much.

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