What scares the hell out of most of us is that the forces of resacralization - both Christian and Muslin - are making such apparent headway without, it would seem, any apparent resistance. We need what Marcuse called a "great refusal". Oh sure, we see vestiges of resistance on the Western side, but it often looks to us from way over here that the debate in the Middle East is stilted.
Then along comes a video like this Aljazeera interview with Wafa Sultan that gives you hope that maybe things aren't quite as monolithic and hopeless as we fear.
Then, too there's this website called ALTMUSLIM that seems to take the liberal notion that all sides should be discussed. Here you can see the give-and-take debate that really is going on.
Check out their piece on Evin Prison in Iran.
Or,their piece on Comic Book Realities.
Another brave soul is Ibn Warraq, critic of Islamic fundamentalism and author of a recent book "Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out" and "How to Debate A Muslim"
The Australian Broadcasting Company has an online Radio Interview with him.
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