03
March 2010
Past Event
A Book Discussion on "The Other Muslims: Moderate and Secular"

A Book Discussion on "The Other Muslims: Moderate and Secular"

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
March 03, 2010
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03
March 2010
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1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
Kenneth R. Weinstein,

Hudson Institute CEO

Juan Zarate,

Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism and CBS News National Security Analyst

Zeyno Baran,

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Eurasian Studies

M. Zuhdi Jasser,

President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Hedieh Mirahmadi,

President of the World Organization for Resource Development and Education

"__The most important ideological struggle in the world today is within Islam, between Islamists, extremist activists who hijack Islam and seek political power to reshape societies, and moderate and secular Muslims who embrace the compatibility of Islam and democracy as well as the individual freedoms we all cherish in the West." — Zeyno Baran, Hudson Senior Fellow and Editor of The Other Muslims__

The end of 2009 witnessed the Fort Hood shootings and the Christmas Day attempted airline bombing, rekindling among some in Europe and the United States the misperception that Islam (the religion) rather than Islamism (the political ideology) poses a security threat to the West.

The Other Muslims (Palgrave Macmillan), edited by Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Eurasian Studies Zeyno Baran, represents a unique effort to differentiate between Islam and Islamism. It is a collection of essays by moderate Muslims from Europe and the United States, who all agree that Westerners place democracy and universal human rights at grave risk if they ignore the political-ideological threat Islamists pose through their narrow interpretation of Islam.

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