Islam and the Future of Tolerance
September 17, 2015 2:40 PM   Subscribe

Sam Harris and former Islamist Maajid Nawaz discuss their new book at Harvard's Institute of Politics. It's fair to say there has been somewhat of a "regressive backlash" against the dialogue.
posted by Rufus T. Firefly (2 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure how a thread about this is going to go well here - this would be a difficult topic in the best case but this also seems to be a pretty outragey and counter-outragey setup. -- LobsterMitten



 
Who are these "regressives?" It sounds like the author is using the word to refer to self-described progressives who are not sufficiently scared of Islam. Also the insistence that Islamophobia does not (cannot?) exist is very off-putting and reminds me of something a right-wing reactionary would say.
posted by zenhob at 2:59 PM on September 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


That blog post, um.

I think that Sam Harris's ideas about Islam are problematic, to say the least, and the idea that folks who call him out on it are making "regressive attacks"? He's perfectly happy espousing the same sorts of ideas that got Ahmed arrested on Monday, i.e., "It's *logical* to profile Muslim people at airports, so we should keep doing it."

I don't think Harris's opponents are the "regressive" ones here.
posted by damayanti at 2:59 PM on September 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


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