
Baroness Cox: The 'West,' Islam, and Islamism
Socrates in the City
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The Importance of Criticism in Islam
In the early centuries Islam itself was opened that kind of critical analysis if you look at a contemporary version of that manifestation. There are voices who can say that the issue really is that the more radical the more traditional and non-open to criticism Islam. The most influential in terms of spreading Islam around the world is the Wahhabi kind that's largely funded from Saudi Arabia but we must be very appropriately aware that much of the Islam has been propagated in our own societies.
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