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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Yehudai, Nir. "Globalization, Tolerance and the Chances for Democracy: The Meeting Between American Society and Islamic Theological Thought in the United States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, Apr 12, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p197220_index.html>

Yehudai, N. , 2007-04-12 "Globalization, Tolerance and the Chances for Democracy: The Meeting Between American Society and Islamic Theological Thought in the United States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p197220_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper is an attempt to investigate the interaction between American society and Islamic theological thought in the United States, including its important institutions and representatives. The process of globalization has led to a powerful flow of both people and ideas among the countries of the world, and especially from the developing countries to the more developed ones. Traditional democracies have had to face challenges which they never had to cope with in the past. The active integration of people from distant places, has posed a serious challenge to the integrating societies. In the case of the development of Muslim communities in the West, the situation is apparently more difficult and more critical than in other cases. In many cases, Muslim communities are perceived as trying to introduce terror into the fabric of the integrating societies or states, either publicly or secretly. Due to the traumatic events identified with Islamic terror, democratic societies may choose to or be forced to take anti-democratic steps in order to defend democracy. There appears to be an increasing tendency for societies to face this possibility, posing significant internal contradictions for democratic practices. This paper is an attempt to investigate the interaction between American society and Islamic theological thought in the United States, including its important institutions and representatives. During the past two decades, after the first terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York in 1993, and especially after September 11, 2001, special attention, at first unintended, but later, more concentrated and intensive, has been directed at the activities of the Muslim community in the United States. In this Abstract, mention might be made, for example, of the Islamic scholar, Taha Jabir Al-Alwani, the President of the Fiqh Council of North America. Alwani, who is involved in Islamic thought, education, and writing, and who is an instructor on suiting Islamic law to life in the United States , is often attacked by both sides. Americans who write about and study Islamic terror point to contacts between al-Alwani and organizations which finance and activate Islamic terror, that is, activity in opposition to the state and to the security of its citizens. On the other hand, there are those within and outside of the American Muslim community who view him as acting to advance cultural assimilation and as supporting governmental policy, even when it includes killing Muslims.

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