"‘Indeed, in all great Muslim thinkers up to and including the eighteenth-century Shah Waliy Allah of Delhi, there is …"

"Throughout, the fundamentalists have foreclosed all possibilities of any foundational critique of Islam by a standard…"

"‘The closing of the door of Ijtihad is pure fiction,’ he wrote, ‘suggested partly by the crystallization of legal tho…"

"‘When the Quran was delivered, the followers of the prevailing religions took the outward forms of religion for relig…"

"To create a negative image, to manufacture stereotypes and biases against the minorities, a large network of trained …"

"Normally, the atheist Left should be the sharpest opponent of religious obscurantism and dogmatic adherence to anti-u…"

"I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or be…"

"The general opinion among educated people, widely expressed, was to condemn all attempts at book-banning. To be sure,…"

"So history and belief encouraged men to feel that Islam could be Islam properly only in conjunction with political po…"

"One is that, even before the rise of Islamism, there were indications that leftism did not in general fare as well in…"