![]() Willow Wilson makes a case for her own vision of the world’s second largest religion.Īs a reporter in the field, Wilson is clearly better suited than most of us to make such distinctions. In “The Butterfly Mosque,” a thoughtful new memoir about her conversion to Islam and falling in love with an Egyptian man, Boulder High School graduate G. But many Westerners aren’t even aware of that Islam encompasses everything from Egyptian Sufis to medieval Wahabbi morals police in Saudi Arabia to Turkish intellectuals. Islam: a peaceful faith or a brutal, violent religion bent on destruction? It all depends, of course, on your viewpoint. Nearly a quarter century on, the face of Islam has changed, but not for the better, from steely, calculating al Qaida slaughtering innocent thousands to the shadowy, inscrutable Taliban of Afghanistan. ![]() The next year the Islamic revolution erupted in Iran, and its partisans appeared in U.S. In 1978, my Spanish teacher said her Iranian (she said Persian) husband, was a Muslim, and therefore “would never even kill a fly.” ![]()
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