Voices - Islam
"There was nothing very medieval about the new Islamic revivalism and many of its leaders had studied such subjects as engineering, aeronautics or computer science in America or Europe. They knew what Western culture was and they did not like it." - Robert Irwin, 2001 <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n19/mult2319.htm#irwin>
"Is it possible
for the Islamic peoples to evolve a form of government that will be compatible
with their own historical, cultural, and religious traditions and yet
will bring individual freedom and human rights to the governed as these
terms are understood in the free societies of the West?"
- Bernard Lewis, 1993 <http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/93feb/lewis.htm>
"The central
problem facing Arab Muslims, and indeed all Muslims, today is how to find
a new way of life-Islamic in character-which will be halfway between the
East and the West and which will provide the internal stability necessary
to enable Muslims to face their problems independently. The Arab World
can borrow technology from the West but it must find the answers to its
deeper problems within itself."
- Ishaq Husseini, 1956<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/56oct/husseini.htm>
