Indonesia’s Muslim Counter Radicalization Movements

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Paul Marshall is Wilson Distinguished Professor of Religious Freedom at Baylor University and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Leimena Institute,  Jakarta, Indonesia, and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of  Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) in Jakarta.

Mr. Marshall is the author and editor of more than twenty books on  religion and politics, especially religious freedom, including Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians (2013, with Lela Gilbert and Nina Shea), Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide (2011, with Nina Shea), Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion (2009), Religious Freedom in the World (2007), Radical Islam’s Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Sharia Law (2005), The Rise of Hindu Extremism (2003), Islam at the Crossroads (2002), God and the Constitution (2002), The Talibanization of Nigeria (2002), Massacre at the Millennium (2001), Religious Freedom in the World (2000), Egypt’s Endangered Christians (1999), Just Politics (1998), Heaven Is Not My Home (1998), A Kind of Life Imposed on Man (1996), and the best-selling, award-winning survey of religious persecution worldwide Their Blood Cries Out (1997).

He is the author of several hundred articles, and his writings have  been translated into Russian, German, French, Dutch, Spanish,  Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Albanian, Japanese, Malay, Korean,  Arabic, Farsi, and Chinese. He is in frequent demand for lectures and  media appearances, including interviews on ABC Evening News; CNN; PBS;  Fox; the British, Australian, Canadian, South African, and Japanese  Broadcasting Corporations; and Al Jazeera. His work has been published  in, or is the subject of, articles in the New York Times, Wall St.  Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Boston  Globe, Dallas Morning News, Christian Science Monitor, First Things, New  Republic, Weekly Standard, Reader’s Digest, and many other newspapers  and magazines.

Mr. Marshall is also a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute  for the Study of Religion at Baylor University. He was also a part of  the Christianity and Freedom Project headed by the Berkley Center’s  Religious Freedom Project.