{"id":21253,"date":"2013-04-23T02:14:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T02:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=21253"},"modified":"2013-04-23T02:14:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T02:14:24","slug":"here-we-are-again-at-the-intersection-of-religion-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=21253","title":{"rendered":"Here we are again at the intersection of religion and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — and I should add that I don’t think it’s a matter of a minor side street crossing a grand boulevard ]
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I have high regard for Mark Juergensmeyer<\/strong>, whose book Terror in the Mind of God<\/a> is rightfully a classic, and I don’t by an means always trust tweets from a TV channel… but in this case I wouldn’t be altogether surprised if NBC Nightly News had it right, and Mark Juergensmeyer was shading things just a bit too cautiously.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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  • Mark Juergensmeyer, Don\u2019t Blame Religion for Boston Bombings<\/a><\/li>\n
  • NBC Nightly News, on Twitter<\/a> <\/blockquote>\n

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    But look, I feel the way I do about the intersection of religious and political motives — in this and other cases — because I have some personal understanding of how passionate a matter religion can be, and a sense, too, that our secularizing age wouldn’t mind at all if religion quietly dropped off the edge of the world.<\/p>\n

    Having said that, I like to listen to the voices of those who may see things in a different light, so perhaps I may point you to two recent articles by two of the keener observers of the Islamist political scene — Olivier Roy<\/strong> and Gilles Kepel<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  • Olivier Roy, Boston: More Like Sandy Hook Than 9\/11<\/a>\n
  • Gilles Kepel, Apr\u00e8s le printemps arabe, l\u2019hiver islamiste\u2026 Est-ce une bonne description de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Two people with very rich exposure to the varieties of contemporary Islam speak to us in those two pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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