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Article: Faith-Based Initiatives.
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- Foreign Policy
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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The televised footage of an airliner crashing into the World Trade Center is now the prevailing image of Islam. Media pundits decry anti-Muslim bigotry and hasten to remind the public that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance, notwithstanding the actions of an extremist minority. But in the same breath many of those pundits warn of a clash of civilizations--a war that pits the secular, modernized West against a region mired in ancient hatreds and fundamentalist rage.
This simplistic choice between "Islam" and "modernity" ignores a third option that is emerging throughout the Middle East. Lost amidst the din of cultural saber-rattling are the voices calling ...
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