05 November 2009

The Elephant in the Room: A war of ideas within Islam

Three Muslim students approached me after I had finished a speech at Harvard University. I was there to talk about the threat of radical Islam across the globe, as part of the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Program to Protect America's Freedom.

The students, one man and two women, wore Western-style clothes and spoke English with little or no accent. They disputed my description of Islam as it's practiced in the Middle East, maintaining that al-Qaeda's version of Islam in no way reflects the Islam that is practiced around the world. So I asked them a question: Should apostates - Muslims who convert to another religion - be subject to execution? [The Philadelphia Inquirer] Read more [via Creeping Sharia]