The U.S. should pay attention to Southeast Asia-and particularlyIndonesia-as the second front in the war on terrorism. Thesecountries represent the best hope for fostering a "moderate" or"civilized" Islam that recognizes the true peaceful nature of thatreligion, in opposition to the radical, terrorist-inspiring Islampreached by Saudi financed Wahhabism.
One of the scholars who try to offer a more emancipatory interpretation of the Quran is Asma Barlas. She closely examines the male-oriented interpretations of the Quran and offers an antipatriarchal alternative
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In Indonesia, eight months before September 11 2001, a small group of Muslim intellectuals got together with the aim of forming a progressive counterbalance to the conservative Islamist movements in their country. Christina Schott reports
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