Western foreign policy obstructs internal Islamic reform by feeding aggrieved militancy

Evidence

In the studio, Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam Today, tries to demur, falling back on the standard line that 9/11 preceded Iraq. True enough, but there had never been suicide bombing in Britain until last week. Manji makes some good points: in a piece the other day (I think in the Standard?), she broke ranks with the sentimental consensus about “true Islam”, arguing that there needs to be an Islamic Reformation, with the acceptance within the religion that certain passages of the Koran can be wrong. But the call for Islamic auto-critique must go alongside a recognition that the “Crusader” policies of the US and the UK feed an aggrieved militancy that will make that kind of Reformation much less likely. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1447

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Western military force on Muslims worsens rather than eases sectarian conflict — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2463; For many Islamist radicals the internal enemy takes priority over foreign ones; Essentialized views of Islam make any Islamic reform a betrayal of the essence

Broader Connections

• Western military force on Muslims worsens rather than eases sectarian conflict #corroborates (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2463
• Essentialized views of Islam make any Islamic reform a betrayal of the essence #corroborates (0.85)
• For many Islamist radicals the internal enemy takes priority over foreign ones #contradicts (0.80)