Much as we’d like our children to hold the same things dear as we do, we should have enough faith in them to let them choose their own belief system.
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Much as we’d like our children to hold the same things dear as we do, we should have enough faith in them to let them choose their own belief system.
If we suspend scepticism and take up Barack Obama’s invitation to dream of change, what Middle East can the audacity of hope help to forge?
By Khaled Diab An outward appearance of Islamism disguises the increasingly secular reality of some Arab and Muslim societies. April 2009 In a series of recent articles, Brian Whitaker explored the role of Islam in Arab politics, the decline of secularism and what can be done to reinvigorate it. He describes how “the decline...
By Khaled Diab A secular society confines religion to the spiritual sphere where it belongs, and leaves worldly affairs to human resourcefulness. April 2009 In my previous piece on Arab secularism, both overt and veiled, I promised to consider ways of advancing progressive secularism in the Arab world. The question of bringing the Arab...
