Common Ground

[kateorman]

With my deadline passed, I've returned to Waleed Aly's stimulatin' book People Like Us. (Life is busy. If your time is limited, read the chapter "Women as a Battlefield".) These online dust-ups are such a terrific excuse opportunity to borrow far too many library books learn stuff. :)

As you know, my goal in these postings is to disagree

Comments

[brendan_moody]

But should Muslims, and so on be expected to assuage the baseless fears and prejudices of their fellow American or Australian citizens?

I've recently been looking through Adolph Reed's essay collection Class Notes, and came across this paragraph on black anti-Semitism

[dreamer_easy]

"Charles Rangel put the problem succinctly: When approached to declare himself on Khalid Muhammad, he complained that he was tired of being called on to denounce people he'd never even heard of."Bwa

[strangedave]

have you read Ziauddin Sardar's book Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim? Very engaging book about the difficulties in reconciling a Western, sceptical, academic, liberal background with Islam, and the various problems within the Islamic world he sees from that perspective. Well worth a read.

[kateorman]

Oh, I spotted that the other day in the local library! Will peruse. Thanks!