RE: The future of ?progressive Islam? Farish Noor

salam,

what is progressive to some, is of course different from what is progressive to some others. in s.e. asia, progressive/moderate/liberal are often very close, if not the same. to get an idea of this, read noor's "towards a progressive islam on our own terms":

http://www.tegenwicht.org/23_fund/farish.htm

for many in the 'west,' *progressive* means communism-- which apparently they percieve as a progress. for many in the 'east,' *progressive* means thinking outside of the 'conservative' box.

afdhere

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>From: "Na'eem Jeenah" >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected], [email protected] >Subject: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] RE: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] The future of ‘progressive Islam’ Farish Noor >Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:38:41 +0200 > >salaam > >I havent read this article yet. However, I did read his >article on progressive Islam. I didn't like it. He confuses >'progressive' with 'moderate' with 'liberal' and gets some >strange meaning out of the mix. And while he did say >that the article was about SE Asia, nevertheless... much >of what he called progressive Islam I didn't recognise as >being part of the discourse of this phenomenon that I've >been engaging with. Certainly the notion of it being a >government-d
riven programme, focussing on >developmental issues but ignoring demcracy and human >rights sounds... weird. > >got to run. have a plane to catch > >na'eem >ps: I'm not going to WSF anymore. Nevertheless Talib, >look out fo the South Africans. We have some kick-ass >social movements here and my comrades from the Anti- >War Coalition, Anti-privatisation forum, Palestine >solidarity committee, freedom of expression institute, >landless peoples movement, jubilee South Africa, etc will >be there. Enjoy!

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