A Call for Islamist Reformation
October 3rd, 2008 by Jason
Michael Allen at Democracy Digest has a good summary of recent arguments from various Middle East analysts on the need for a “radical intellectual revision” of Islamist thought. Some call for the abandonment of such facile slogans as “Islam is the solution.” Bret Stephens discusses the three broad blocs comprising Muslim societies: pre-modern tribes; the modern Arab center; and anti-modern Islamists. He suggests attempting to “isolate anti-moderns by creating political alliances between the urban middle class and the tribes.”
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