It's always always true to say of nearly any theorist and any essay using their work 'but it's much more complex than this.'
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Do you think there are many Muslim people who would change their mind as the result of reading that?
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Change their mind about what? What have I suggested they change their mind about?
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My point is that you are taking a secular humanist view of Islam. That may be meaningless to some devout Muslims.
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Yes. That is why it starts by saying that.
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But that belief comes from an interpretation of the texts. Throwing doubt on that interpretation might be a way to convince.
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Then do that. That doesn't require humanists not to exist and talk about humanism
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But one of the reasons that identity politics is such a potent force is the presence in the west of large communities who do not accept....
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...a lot of secularist and humanist assumptions. My beef is with the fatal compromise that multiculturalism makes here.
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