Are You Sure You Want Communitarian Values?
UPI reports that a man has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for desecrating the Koran. It might get more press since 9/11, but there is nothing new about such judgments in Islamic nations.
It is not, however, the case that in Islamic countries a few radicals impose absurdly strict rules on the public. And such judgments are not only the product of what has come to be called “radical” Islam.
Islam is a religion which incorporates everything in life under its authority, right down to personal conscience. Just after September 11, 2001 there were posters all over the campus of at least one North Texas school inviting people to come learn about a religion which unifies every part of life: personal, family, community, religion, government. The benefit of bringing integration to Western Read the rest of this entry »
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