Dharma Dispatch Ram Swarup’s Skewering of the Myth of the Liberal Muslim

[Sandeep Balakrishna]

Ram Swarup critiques the concept of the liberal Muslim through the story of Mushirul Hasan's tumultuous career. Hasan faced backlash for defending Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and was abandoned by both Muslim and Hindu secularists. Swarup's incisive essay dissects the inherent challenges of being a liberal Muslim in a society influenced by Islamic fundamentalism. He argues that true liberalism among Muslims requires a deeper struggle against the fundamentals of Islam.

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