By Matthew J. Morgan (eds.)
ISBN-10: 0230101607
ISBN-13: 9780230101609
ISBN-10: 1349375403
ISBN-13: 9781349375400
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ZUHDI JASSER AND SID SHAHID Currently, it seems that the Islamist model and ideology is winning while the secularists still struggle to find a common voice. 1 This is not a surprise since the autocrats, monarchs, and dictators of the so-called Muslim world have done everything in their power to all but extinguish every other ideological movement on their soil save the Islamists. The diffuse loosely connected international power structure of political Islam that has evolved in the twenty-first century did not arise out of thin air.
Unless taught or reminded to do so, we do not instinctively nuance the other person’s beliefs that are regarded as alien to ours. Therefore the best way to tackle this question is to appeal to what the student already knows about his or her own faith tradition or culture and the contested views and perspectives that exist within it. When prodded to acknowledge the internal diversity of their own traditions, they are encouraged to extend the same courtesy to other ways of thinking or beliefs. Sometimes it is hard for students coming from within the Catholic tradition, as at Notre Dame, to relate to the diffuseness of religious authority within Islam—so accustomed are they to the centralized authority of the Catholic Church and the finality of its edicts.
While sitting around sipping coffee, I met Major Carl Ruthberg, a Salvationist normally stationed at Times Square. Since the tragedy he has worked mainly at the Medical Examiner’s Office, the place where they bring bodies and body parts to be identified. The morgue is equipped with high-tech refrigerator trucks lined with steel shelving, and body bags stacked by the thousands. More than two weeks after the event, only 5 percent of the bodies had been found. One group was found intact, holding hands, but they were a rarity.
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