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Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of…

— Gary Bauer

“At first, it seemed bizarre to find the progressive left making common cause with radical Islam. One half of the alliance professed to be…

— Mark Steyn

The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive; the…

— Tariq Ramadan

“A common error of western commentators who seek to interpret Islamism sympathetically is to view it as a form of localised resistance to globalisation.…

— John Gray

“Louis Duprée described this contradiction in his work on Afghanistan: “Islam, in essence, is not a backward, anti-progressive, anti-modern religion, although many of its…

— Jenny Nordberg

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

— Pankaj Mishra

London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition,…

— Nick Cohen

“modernization’ of the 1970s and 1980s, by contrast, unintentionally blended plain Wahhabi Islamism with Western, especially American, popular culture, coexisting in an artificial comfort…

— Tarek Osman

“As Islamic liberalism waned, and resistance arose against the West and its influence, that very resistance started to replace genuine religiosity as the basis…

— Mustafa Akyol

Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it.…

— Boaz Ganor

Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right…

— Maajid Nawaz

“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical,…

— Terry Eagleton