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Islam and the Future of Tolerance

By: Maajid Nawaz,Sam Harris
Narrated by: Sam Harris,Maajid Nawaz
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Summary

In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world?

Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical is all the more startling for its decorum. Harris and Nawaz have produced something genuinely new: they engage one of the most polarizing issues of our time - fearlessly and fully - and actually make progress.

Islam and the Future of Tolerance has been published with the explicit goal of inspiring a wider public discussion by way of example. In a world riven by misunderstanding and violence, Harris and Nawaz demonstrate how two people with very different views can find common ground.

©2015 Sam Harris & Maajid Nawaz (P)2015 Sam Harris & Maajid Nawaz

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unacademic + full of propaganda

He sees Usama Hasan as the cream of the crop. This is the same person who wants to change the fasting times at his own whims. His views are rejected by Muslims and seen as disingenuous by non-Muslims.

He quotes a poll that 27% of Muslims in Britain had sympathy with Charlie Hebdo attacks. This study and similar studies not have been comprehensively refuted. Majid exposes both his ignorance and his underlying agenda.

He feels that to counter extremism the argument should be made that there is absolutely no correct reading of scripture.
He later says he wants to re-interpret scripture, not noticing the irony.

Sam Harris justifies and sympathises with the crusaders. (Elsewhere he has suggested that we should pre-emptively nuke Muslims).

After Sam Harris spews a completely false and propganda-filled account of Islamic history, Majid simply responds, "your words about history are not incorrect, but incomplete."

He accuses CAGE of being a jihadist lobby group. All CAGE did was to suggest that we look at a holistic view of why people may become radicalised.

Delusions of grandeur - sam and majid feel their discussion have redrawn the starting point for these discussions, again overlooming the fact that their book was a compilation of drivel.

Honour killings is continously brought up by Sam Harris, though it has no basis in islamic scripture, and are in fact a Hindu problem, than Muslim one.

I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

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Essential, both for the listener and humanity.

This is what honesty sounds like when paired with a concern for all our futures. Excellent.

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My mind can be changed!

100% worth your time I've had my mind changed by listening to this... Very good...

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Bold

Bold conversation, one that is much needed. Educational, inspiring and shining a light on a way forward.

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The most important topic of our time

So pleased to have learnt about Maajid through Sam Harris. A true leading light with a humanitarian and reasoned voice we can all listen to - believers and non-believers alike.

It has helped me to understand a topic that I too once felt the need to obsfucate out of liberal tendency.

This is a very important book and I look forward to following the continuing dialogue.

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A much needed book

Fantastic having the book read by both co-authors in a conversational style. Both make excellent narrators.

Such a rare exchange.
I do not think there is another book like this, but hope it will not stay that way for long. With any luck this book will pave the way for others of opposing viewpoints to seek dialogue instead of just debate, or worse, censorship and taboo.

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When Worlds collide new particles emerge


The dialog feels a bit stilted, because it is presented as spontaneous, but it is obviously a reading of ideas that have been distilled from questions they have asked each other and have answered in great detail and with deep knowledge of the subject. Also the reading gets more relaxed as they get use to doing this. Both this writers are more used to debate and of the cuff comments and ideas than reading from prepared text.

Maajid Nawaz added a lot new to this dialog as an ex islamist he understands the religious context and the political motivations of the islamic movements,plus his historical grasp of the movement is insightful and internal, his proposals for combating them in the west are in my opinion a bit timid but they are more than most politicians are trying now a days.

Sam Harris as usual is a conciliatory questioning interlocutor that presents reason and ideas as guiding points to this conversation and is extremely respectful of Majid's first book, where he openly stops defending islamist ideology and engages in the difficulties of demouncin the faith’s shortcomings and becomes openly secularist.

An excellent read if you are interested in cultural problem of the century, and excellent book to introduce you to the problems politicians dare not name.

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essential

surely one of the most important conversations of our time. read it and encourage others to do so.

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A must listen

This is a conversation which had to be had. Majjid has opened my eyes to the possibilities that there is more than 1 interpretation of Islam based in history and fact

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Absolutely brilliant, a real eye opener

Constructive debate in the quest for Human rights values, a must for anyone who wants to educate themselves on this very prevalent topic.

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