In These Times

whattheheck's statement "The radical Muslims don’t see nations which include religious categories — they see a religion which includes national categories." is not quite correct -- it's not the radicals only who see it that way. That Islam embraced all was a point of faith and pride for the earliest believers. That "all" included nations, cultures and intellectual and religious inquiry. The modern radicals, however, have no tolerance for such inquiry, but imagine a past, pure state in which inquiry was neither present nor necessary. One might also point out that radical _Muslims_ are not the only worshipers of a mythical …

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