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Why Can’t Muslim Societies Be More Like a Globalised West?
Commentary by Alastair Crooke
New Global Studies Vol. 3 : Issue 2, Article 4. Published by The Berkeley Electronic Press
BEIRUT – Many commentators on Islam make the same mistake: They instinctively assume that Muslim resistance to western globalisation reflects the inability of Muslims to accept the social and structural change that ‘modernity’ requires. Muslims, in this […]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Islam and globalization, Islamists, Modernity.
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Should the West dialogue with Islamists?
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Abdullah Faliq, The Cordoba Foundation, October-December, 2006
“…what Muslims hate is the West’s monopoly on the socio-economic implementation of values such as justice, freedom, good governance, which all Muslims share. Muslims don’t believe simply that the West is the only model of the implementation of these values, and the only way you […]
Posted: February 18th, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islam and globalization, Modernity, Political Islam.
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Meeting the challenge of coexistence
Alastair Crooke, Panel on Mitigating Religious and Ethnic Conflict, Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, September 20, 2006
MARY ROBINSON: When you say you think we have Islamism totally wrong can you briefly say why?
ALASTAIR CROOKE: Yes. We perceive the West as engaged in a struggle against what we see as a continuum of Islamist extremists. And […]
Posted: November 27th, 2006 under Alastair Crooke, DISCUSSION, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islam and globalization.
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