Just a heads up, I've been posting now and then to the quasi-Twitteresque site Talk Islam run by my friend Aziz Poonawalla. I also have a sub-weblog where I'll be posting some of my longer form ruminations...but it might be best to just sign up for the RSS so you're notified when I start posting there regularly. I've been reading God's Rule - Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought on & off for weeks now, and I think I'll put up a review over there after I'm done....
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I am one of those who has said many times that the larger context of the war on terrorism is that of a crucial internal battle within Islam, a battle that puts the US, and western ideals, in the crossfire.
The trial of Oriana Fallaci, charged in Italy with defaming Islam, began on Monday.
One of the things I find disturbing lately is how many Americans have lumped all Muslims together into one monolithic group labeled "terrorists".
Ali Eteraz points me to the fact that the Grand Mufti of Egypt seems to have offered the opinion that