As usual, I find your thoughts informative and clarifying.
Can I raise a point about the near-universal omission of Indonesia, a giant Muslim democracy, in discussions of Islam and politics.
This omission is I suspect precisely because it goes so strongly against the preferred narrative of the warmongers, and it is these racist haters who tend to set the parameters for the debate, for all-too-human reasons
As usual, I find your thoughts informative and clarifying.
Can I raise a point about the near-universal omission of Indonesia, a giant Muslim democracy, in discussions of Islam and politics.
This omission is I suspect precisely because it goes so strongly against the preferred narrative of the warmongers, and it is these racist haters who tend to set the parameters for the debate, for all-too-human reasons