Thursday, March 03, 2005

Brave, Young and Muslim - Thomas Friedman, NYT

"There's no bigger idea for the Muslim world today - and consequently for all of us - than reopening the gates of independent thinking, or 'ijtihad,' " she said. "That's the main point of my book - to show that Islam once had a pluralistic tradition of critical debate and dissent, and that we Muslims need to rediscover this tradition to update Islam for the 21st century. That's not being radical. That's being faithful."

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Blogger John B. Chilton said...

Jean-Pierre:

Thank you for the complement.

Regarding respect and open-minded attitude, my occasional quotations from Reinhold Niebuhr point toward a similar concern. That is, the tendency of Christian sects(Niebuhr's primary audience) to lack what he calls religious humility, the ability to leave room for different views. He, I think, was thinking mainly of conflicts within Christianity, and between Christian and Jew, but it is a universal concern.

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