Friday, August 05, 2005

Islam: the tide of change / New Statesman, 8 Aug 2005

http://www.newstatesman.com/200508080006
Ziauddin Sardar
"My voyages for the BBC took me to Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco and Turkey, an itinerary that included some of the most populous and important Muslim nations. Everywhere I went I found courageous progressives engaged in a battle of ideas with conservatives. Each country had a different Islam, a different dynamic and a different way of addressing the issue of change, but that change is taking place is beyond dispute. And yet all this is largely invisible to us in the west. "