God bless him if he is for real

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Jul 5, 2013 at 15:35

Dear Dr Pipes:

Your reader Aqeel Haider wrote about his early education in an Indian madrassa. He wrote that now he is a free thinker. That is exactly what we need from the Islamic world: free thinkers. Let Islamic ideas live or die on their own merits. They do not have to be protected under all circumstances. And they, certainly, don't need to be protected by the force of sword.

If Aqeel Haider is for real, all the power to him.

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