RAND report on Muslims
Called Civil Democratic Islam where Cheryl Benard describe 4 types of Muslims
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/2005/MR1716.pdf
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Advice to British Muslims and Muslims in the West.
Bismillah Basically an avalanche has started and it's heading our way. When it comes it will flatten us I think and completely. It's already moving and you can see it in the media. Negative stories about Muslims. Negative stories about Islam. Each one worse than the previous. Etc Our strategies: 1- Ignore it and hope it will die out by itself somehow. So no need to do anything. This may be how we are currently behaving. Even our imams. The Friday khutbas don't seem to mention about such avalanches. So we are just living oblivious or maybe we don't want to deal with the issue. It maybe we don't really know how to deal with it also. 2- Acknowledge the issue and seek ways to address it. Maybe setup conferences, host talks on the subject etc. Then we at least stand a chance; we are doing something. And Allah helps those who help themselves. So I think we need to be choosing path 2 and we need to stop choosing path 1. We need to change. We need to be active. We nee...
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