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Comment: A provocative lecture on Islam
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em>Jan. 14, p. 7
In the tableau of America’s troubled relationship with Muslims around the world, its relationship with Indonesia has been looked to with much optimism.
But to what extent has America successfully engaged with Indonesia’s Muslim population?
Speaking at Yogyakarta’s State Islamic University last Wednesday, Professor John Esposito of Georgetown University addressed some of these issues in a lecture he gave on a wide range of past, present and possible future political crises between the West and Muslim-majority nations. (By Christian N. Desrosiers, Yogyakarta)
Your comments:
The strange thing about this article is that the writer himself compares incomparable things: One nation or state and the other is belief or religion that is not related to any state or nation.
Let the Muslims in the US have their religion and non-Muslims can have their beliefs and opinions in regions or countries with a Muslim majority.
Indonesia still has something to prove in this field. As to the Cordoba House in Manhattan, this seems to me an unfortunate example.
On one side I deplore the resistance to the building of the institution. On the other hand, I am not convinced of its peaceful intentions: Mixing the experience of religion and the striving for earthly power.
M.T.J. Smit
Wassenaar, The Netherlands
