It's been a banner week for Samuel Huntington. His thesis about an inevitable "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West was an idea many progressives loved to hate, me included. But the so-called 'cartoon crisis' is forcing a lot of people to give his dire warnings a second look.
Conversely, it's been a bad week for thoughtful Islamic reformers. If I read them correctly, writers like Irshad Manji (The Trouble with Islam) and Reza Aslan (No god but God) argue...
]]>