Talk Islam: Dalia Mogahed* v Irshad Manji.
Both speakers were not clear on the need for political reform (the real problem), although Mogahed does touch on it at the end.
*Co-author of Who Speaks for Islam?
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Muse 12:45 am on September 17, 2008 Permalink |
Thanks for posting this, very interesting. Still watching it. Dalia is sharp as a tack.
Bang Gully 9:53 am on September 17, 2008 Permalink |
I just don’t think the terms are clear enough in this debate and a lot of these debates. I think both brought up good points. I liked Manji’s definition of the what a “reform-minded” Muslim is but I don’t see what distinction there is between that and many “moderate” Muslims.
I think Dalia brought up good points when it came to her analogy of a radical cell/ blue dye and radical/within Islam, how the radicals will utilize Islamic symbolic language since that is the language of legitimacy.
As, her point about Osama bin Laden also being a reformer/reinterpreter was excellent as well.
I think their conclusions/concrete solutions were a little superficial but this is a hard issue and it can’t be summed up in a soundbyte.
thabet 12:43 pm on September 17, 2008 Permalink |
I think you will find Mogahed and Esposito actually collected some numbers to back their assertions, although I agree these sorts of debates are purely by, and for, a Western audience.
Western Muslims complain about “ancestral” cultures being imported into their home towns across US, Uk, etc. It seems extremely arrogant then, as a Western Muslim, to start telling Egyptians, Pakistanis, Saudis, etc. what “true Islam” is. They should leave alone and concentrate on their own communities, countries, etc.