Rebecca Bynum

Allah is Dead (eBook, ePUB)

Why Islam is Not a Religion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many analysts have worked on the problem of Islam's political aspects, but few have tackled Islam philosophically as a whole. Rebecca Bynum does that. She discusses Islam and its status in the modern world with a depth and precision missing in many modern accounts and sadly concludes that the great hope of secularizing the Muslim world is a pipe dream. It is much more likely, according to Bynum, that the secular world will be Islamized. Overall, however, her analysis is hopeful and provides an important ideological tool for dealing with Islam which is to reconsider its classification. Bynum maintains Islam's current status as a religion, along with all the other religions of the world, is in error. She refers to Islam as the duck-billed platypus of belief systems and proposes it should be classified accordingly; as the hybrid religio-socio-political belief system it is. She also reminds the Western world about what religion itself actually is, not the caricature modern analysts often mean when they refer to "religious fundamentalisms." Bynum has given policy-makers a powerful tool for dealing with Islam. Let us hope they understand, and grasp, and choose to make use of it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New English Review Press dba Wrld Encounter Inst
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780985439415
• Artikelnr.: 62079141

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Bynum, Editor and Publisher for New English Review Press, Managing Editor for The Iconoclast and author of Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion (2011), and The Real Nature of Religion (2014). She currently serves as Secretary for World Encounter Institute. Ms. Bynum is the Executive Director of the American Mideast Coalition for Democracy, a grassroots NGO designed to give a political voice to Americans of Middle Eastern descent. She also served as assistant to Dr. Walid Phares, co-Secretary General of the Trans-Atlantic Group on Counter-Terrorism and who was Foreign Policy Advisor to Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump in 2016.