Does Islam need a liberal reformation? Mustafa Akyol and Dr Ovamir Anjum
The Thinking Muslim
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The Importance of Political Freedom
I agree with you that what we call freedom to day, which appeared, there is no word for freedom in any slamic language until the modern period. I go so far as to say that you undermine the problems in the mislam world by bringing the question of certain liberal, chosen liberal rights above the question of political macy, accountability and and freedom. The idea of freedom of one's opinion is not anew at all, and it is defended, but just i different terms than you would give it. A secularism is misunderstood by kuru in the same way that you misunderstand islamic tradition, meaning that it is a kind of thing you can pick selectively from it whatever you
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