Posted in Islamism, Hillel Fradkin on Apr 10th, 2008 No Comments »
From Hillel Fradkin
Who speaks for Islam? This question forms the title of a new book authored by John L. Esposito, director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, and Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. The book is meant to answer it. According to the authors, their […]
Posted in Islamism, Michael Young, Hillel Fradkin, Terminology, Martin Kramer, Media on Mar 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Hillel Fradkin
According to Philip Bennett, managing editor of the Washington Post, Americans lack a proper understanding of Islam. Contemporary media practice is to blame, and it is the job of the same media to fix it. His immediate proposals: hiring more Muslim journalists, better translations of Arabic words or terms and greater descriptive precision. […]
Posted in Islamism, Hillel Fradkin, Jon Alterman on Dec 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
From Hillel Fradkin
Jon Alterman, in a piece for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (also here), addresses what he sees as a growing number of obituaries for political Islam. Alterman’s judgment about this trend is sober and reasonable: It is far too soon to tell. Although Alterman does not cite by name those who […]
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