12 blog reactions to http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/10/postislamism.html

post-Islamism,” a trend among Muslim political groups that have given up dreams of some kind of Islamic state in favour of more democracy and human rights that include greater religious freedom (here’s a useful summary of the concept). The idea that Islamists could turn into “Muslim democrats” (or “latte Islamists“!) without a hidden agenda to introduce Sharia law once in power met with considerable scepticism. But the Erdogan government, which promoted greater freedoms in

McCain's speech was also helpful in that it outlined the fatal conceptual flaws of his approach to foreign policy. According to McCain, all the doctrinally and politically disparate Islamic terrorist groups, non-violent Islamism, the Iraqi insurgency, Iran, conventional middle Eastern autocracies, and even Russia and the confederation of states allied with it, are alternative representations of a single foreign policy problem. That problem, which McCain dubs

. Once political parties around the Muslim world start adopting its basic premises — that the best way to solve human problems is through politics and not religion (which solves the problem of the after-life) — it will create a “post-Islamist” push (one that has already started). Only if, and when, this post-islamist push is successful will genuinely secular groups in the Muslim world start to raise their heads (although some will say that this correlation does not exist).

WINNER Ali Eteraz at Comment is Free, Islamic Reform (parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7) Ali Eteraz's "thought-provoking whirlwind tour" of seven posts on Islamic Reform in the Guardian's Comment is Free is "earth-shattering."

One of the best articles I've read about on Post-Islamism. Highly recommend you to read this!

An interesting read here. I'm unconvinced that Islam has yet begun its reformation but this is certainly an encouraging viewpoint. Update: There's a whole set of these articles--plowing through them as I write. Here are parts

Al Quaeda is defeated I assume means tribes have come together to eliminate rogue groups and probably want to eliminate rogue criminal groups as well. Islam is changing also indicates Islam in parts of the world is finally figuring out how to deal with radicalism.

artikelserie i the Guardian Unlimited om islamisk reformation: Roots of Islamic reform Islamic Reformation Islamic counter-reformation Beyond Islamic enlightenment Making of the Muslim left Muslim secularism and its allies Post-Islamism

of Islamic reform was to help voiceless Muslims and minorities. The social transformation necessary for creating such a landscape requires acknowledging that Islamic reform is at its heart a political, not merely religious, project. Read the full article here P.S. Ali’s optimism on Tehreek-e-Insaaf needs a bit of a reality check. I don’t blame him as the Great Cricketer is increasingly attracting the attention of the educated urban elites in Pakistan and abroad.

An interesting read here. I'm unconvinced that Islam has yet begun its reformation but this is certainly an encouraging viewpoint. Update: There's a whole set of these articles--plowing through them as I write. Here are parts