In protecting Muslims from those who offend them, the West ill-serves Islam and those Muslims who seek its reform. Muslims need untrammelled free speech to awaken to the awareness of how totalitarian and comatose is their culture.
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I'm waiting on a library copy of Salim Mansur's new book. It will be interesting to see if he can make a convincing case for the possibility of reforming Islam, i.e. showing that it can have a purpose that is compatible with free-thinking, free-speaking, free-associating Muslims in a modern civil society - and still be identifiably Islam, the religion that currently prides itself in prescribing a uniquely correct code of conduct for a "complete way of life".
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