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“This is imperative for the East as well as the West. “Come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18).”

Reason West East

Book:The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

“The transmogrification of Islam into Islamism is bad news not only for the West but also for the majority of Muslims who have no desire to live in totalitarian theocracies. “For the West it is but a physical threat in the form of terrorism,” said Pakistani journalist Ayaz Amir. “For the world of Islam . . . to be trapped in bin Ladenism is to travel back in time to the dark ages of Muslim obscurantism. It means to be stuck in the mire which has held the Islamic world back.”

Islam Backwardness Islamist Obscurantism

Book:The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

“In Taliban-controlled portions of Pakistan, “Polio vaccinations have been declared haram by the ulema, and the government campaign has subsequently stalled.” Like car insurance, vaccinations are a form of presumption. Only with the expulsion of the Taliban from the Swat Valley in the late summer of 2009 was the Pakistani government able to resume vaccinations.”

Pakistan Taliban Polio Vaccine

Book:The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

“The past glories of Islamic civilization show that it was once able to progress. That progress was based upon a different set of ideas, antithetical to those of the Islamists, who would have been considered heretical then.”

Islamist Islamic Civilization

Book:The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

“The entire edifice of individual rights derived from the natural state of the individual or through a secular ethical or political theory is alien to the structure of Islamic reasoning.”

Human Rights Islamic Faith

Book:The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

“Al-Ghazali immodestly claims that, to prepare for the enterprise, he mastered the sum total of relevant knowledge: “There is no philosopher whose system I have not fathomed, nor theologian the intricacies of whose doctrine I have not followed out. Sufism has no secrets into which I have not penetrated.” He is the master of all.”

Philosophy Al Ghazali

Book:The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

“In a line worthy of Robespierre, Sayyid Qutb said that a “just dictatorship” would “grant political liberties to the virtuous alone.”26 Hassan al-Banna, whose bedside reading was al-Ghazali, also regarded the Soviet Union under Stalin as a model of a successful one party system.”

Soviet Union Al Ghazali Robespierre

Book:The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis