In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words
like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny,
and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the
West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, citizenship, and
democracy. In the most alarmist views, the West's most cherished
values--freedom, equality, and tolerance--are said to be endangered
by Islam worldwide. Joseph Massad's Islam in Liberalism explores
what Islam has become in today's world, with full attention to the
multiplication of its meanings and interpretations. He seeks to
understand how anxieties about tyranny, intolerance, misogyny, and
homophobia, seen in the politics of the Middle East, are projected
onto Islam itself. Massad shows that through this projection Europe
emerges as democratic and tolerant, feminist, and pro-LGBT
rights--or, in short, Islam-free. Massad documents the Christian
and liberal idea that we should missionize democracy, women's
rights, sexual rights, tolerance, equality, and even therapies to
cure Muslims of their un-European, un-Christian, and illiberal
ways. Along the way he sheds light on a variety of controversial
topics, including the meanings of democracy--and the ideological
assumption that Islam is not compatible with it while Christianity
is--women in Islam, sexuality and sexual freedom, and the idea of
Abrahamic religions valorizing an interfaith agenda. Islam in
Liberalism is an unflinching critique of Western assumptions and of
the liberalism that Europe and Euro-America blindly present as a
type of salvation to an assumingly unenlightened Islam.
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