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Making Moderate Islam - Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy (Hardcover)
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Making Moderate Islam - Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy (Hardcover)
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Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed
the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," this book refutes the idea that
current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in
response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted
in the media as unique to Muslims. Instead, it looks at a century
of pressures on religious minorities to conform to dominant
American frameworks for race, gender, and political economy. These
include the encouraging of community groups to provide social
services to the dispossessed in compensation for the government's
lack of welfare provisions in an aggressively capitalist
environment. Calls for Muslim moderation in particular are also
colored by racist and orientalist stereotypes about the inherent
pacifism of Sufis with respect to other groups. The first
investigation of the assumptions behind moderate Islam in our
country, Making Moderate Islam is also the first to look closely at
the history, lives, and ambitions of the those involved in
Manhattan's contested project for an Islamic community center.
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