Interview with Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan. He said some good things about integration and normalization of Muslims in the West. All in all, he came off as sounding a lot like a moderate conservative Christian (that is, if you mapped the theological differences over).
Here is an earlier entry I made on Ramadan, which reflected the skepticism some have expressed toward his kinder & gentler Islam. The piece that I linked to in The American Prospect, after listening to Ramadan speak, does not I suspect reflect an anti-Muslim feeling as much as an anti-religious feeling. So in that way, Ramadan is good for Muslims in that he de-couples issues of ethnicity from Islam, enlightened secularism can now start blasting away without concern for issues of racial sensitivity.
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