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The Spell of Islamophobia and Moderate Muslims

Eboo Patel wrote a good article for On Faith of the Washington Post about Islamophobia. His main point is this: whenever he or other so-called moderate Muslims speak out about terrorism, condemn it, and preach a peaceful form of Islam (by pointing out that Islam has a peaceful tradition and a theology that encourages religious pluralism), non-Muslims have only two questions for them. "Why don’t Muslims condemn terrorism?" And, "Where are the moderate Muslim voices?"..

Will an “Islamic Reformation” Ever Come?

First of all, I want to say thank you to Michael van der Galien for inviting me to contribute a guest post to this excellent new blog. A few words about myself and what I do: I’m the director of research at the Project on Middle East Democracy, a Washington-DC based nonprofit that examines how the U.S. can more effectively support democracy and democrats in the Middle East. You can see my bio here. My blogging home is Democracy Arsenal, a progressive group-blog on foreign affairs. Chec..