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This book explores one of the most serious strategic threats confronting the United States and Europe today: the advance of Islamism. Since September 11, Western governments have legitimized and empowered 'nonviolent Islamists' as representatives of Islam for all Muslims in the West, an approach that has worried Muslim moderates. "Citizen Islam" addresses the implications of this approach. This book opens with an overview of the theology and history of Islam, to show that violence and intolerance are not fundamental aspects for the religion. It then explains the growth of Islamism in Europe…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2011Continuum · 197 pages · 9781441104007
- Other · English · 2011Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 208 pages · 9781441130501
- Other · English · 2011Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 208 pages · 9781441157867
- Other · English · 2011Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 210 pages · 9781322085890
Politics and governmentMuslimsIslam and politicsIslamic fundamentalismMuslims, europeEurope, politics and governmentUnited states, politics and government