More on the context of identity
by Jack GrantAziz Poonawalla at City of Brass discusses Islamic identity and American identity, and notes the synthesis of the two along with how that merging is the whole point of America.
When discussing Islamic identity, it is important that we recall the Christian identity that many in the United States profess to have, and to consider why we fear the concept of an Islamic identity while seemingly missing the complementary idea of a separate Christian identity. Recall the question I asked recently in “Context, how often it is ignored“.
We seem to ignore context when it does not fit our prejudices, and this may very well be our undoing.
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