7/7: The London Bombings, Islam, and the War on Terror

[...]Rai makes an early attempt to declaim his non-Muslim background as a "cultural Hindu" who has "never been a believer in any religious tradition" (5). An easy way to argue against reductive arguments that draw simplistic, even essentialist, links between Islam and complex for...

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Published in:Arab studies journal 2007, Vol.15 (1), p.121-124
Main Author: Wales, Zachary
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Activists
Bible
Cultural background
Iraq War-2003
Islam
Muslims
Politics
Protestant Reformation
Religious literature
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Summary:[...]Rai makes an early attempt to declaim his non-Muslim background as a "cultural Hindu" who has "never been a believer in any religious tradition" (5). An easy way to argue against reductive arguments that draw simplistic, even essentialist, links between Islam and complex forms of political violence is to compare public perceptions of other monotheisms.\n The point that he wants to make is that one can derive violence from the Bible just as easily as from the Qur'an, or conversely, that one may find places where these texts condemn attacks on the innocent, particularly attacks on the self.
ISSN:1083-4753
2328-9627