Wednesday, December 5, 2012

     What I found interesting was the talk about the end of political Islam and how ambiguous such a statement is.  To begin with, the idea of all of Islam being represented by a small group is brought up again.  Ramadan says "Can it be termed political Islam when a tiny group of violent extremists that has no organized structure to speak of, no articulate political vision, kills innocent people in different
parts of the world?" (p.98)  This then leads to talk about the other end when he references the Turkish model and says that it could be considered to removed to be political Islam.  This showed me just how uncertain everyone is on what exactly defines political Islam and what should be incorporated in it.  With that in mind I'm compelled to think that talk of an end isn't logical because there is no clear cut thing that says the changes that have been occurring in Islamic communities puts them out of this ideology.  Instead I see it more as an evolution.

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