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July 21, 2005
Abdullah Saeed: The Many Faces Of A Living Religion
Abdullah Saeed, the Sultan of Oman professor of Arab and Islamic studies and the director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam at the University of Melbourne in Australia, contends in a July 20, 2005 article in The Australian that: For some commentators, Muslims living in the West cannot be loyal citizens of a Western nation-state because their loyalty is to Islam. They are seen as a type of fifth column that is quietly existing until the opportunity arises to challenge the system - even violently - and to change it.Similarly there are certain Muslims who argue that Islam and the West are on a collision course and there is no way that a coexistence is possible.
"I argue that Islam in the West, like Islam in the so-called Muslim world, is a diverse and complex phenomenon that defies the single conception of Islam so prevalent today," Mr. Saeed said in the article, which, according to The Australian, is "an edited version of a paper given at last week's international symposium, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
The article is definitely worth reading.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 21, 2005 10:22 PM
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