The liberal age revisited

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jun 13, 2012 at 08:30

Thank you Dr. Pipes. You are very correct and if we indeed had the liberal age of Albert Hourani then it is bound to happen again

I was watching the News hour of a major TV station in Cairo and there was a confrontation between a woman that was wearing a hijab and a salafist and what was most interesting about it is that the woman was saying we do no want your brand of islam and that the sheikh should leave Egypt and head to Saudi Arabia where he will find his brand of islam but she also assured him that he will be back at the blink of an eye

There is no doubt that Egypt is very different and much more diverse but i do think that we might be seeing a turning point as far as this radical form of islam has gone.

There is a great book that was written by Milad Hanna not very long ago that Egyptians love their links to their glorious Pharaonic past, their European connection through their Greco-Roman past as well as to the religion of islam but this balance must be kept in harmony

I'm sure that you must be aware that some member of al-ikhwan al-muslieen I do not recall his name now that he does not want any English or French being taught in schools and only Arabic but the press exposed the fact that he was sending his children to an English school in Cairo

Now we do not hear anything from al-ikhwan about the teaching of English or French is schools

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