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Islam, and Personal Liberty

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  July 27th, 2011 at 10:20 AM  | 

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh is joined by Mustafa Akyol to discuss the seeds of liberalism within Islam, how those freedoms were trampled in Muslim countries, and how the Arab Spring and the Green Movement in Iran might restore that personal liberty.

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Related Links:

Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty
Islam Will Find Its Own Way to Freedom
The Forgotten Liberalism Within Islam
Mustafa Akyol on the Basic Compatibility of Islam with Free Market Economy

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  • 6eorge Jetson

    The Muslim extremist population, on the other hand, finds a non-zero support, or at least complicity, within the Muslim world.

    Where are the public demonstrations of “Death to the (whatever Breivik was against)” in the West?

  • http://jhpruitt.blogtownhall.com/ kipling

    Ezra Dulis and Sooper Mexican (an anonymous blogger) have examined Brevik’s Manifesto and highlight passages in which he denounces Christianity and embraces liberal-statist values. It makes for a very interesting read and is something you will not hear in the MSM.

    http://bigjournalism.com/edulis/2011/07/27/msm-ignores-how-oslo-shooters-own-manifesto-completely-destroys-christian-conservative-label/

  • noufa

    The Islamic world certainly has problems. Here?s a Muslim trying to reconcile those problems.

    Without getting into a theological debate, I?ll concede that culture matters. But I don?t see why Islamic culture is any more static than that of Meiji Japan.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    but the Left has been linking the two, trying to associate Breivik to the right, and to assert that Bush’s War on Terror was ill-founded. It’s annoyed me this week.

    I did qualify my statement with “extremists”. And thank you for acknowledging the problem.

    I certainly don’t believe that the vast majority of self-selected Muslims that have immigrated to the United States came here to practice the opportunity limiting authoritarian ways of present-day middle east.

    But there is a problem. I view it as The Bottom 10