出版社：Smith and Franklin Academic Publishing Corporation, UK
摘要：The terrible events in Paris brought, once again, the threat of Islamic radicalism to the foreground of pub- lic consciousness. Such attacks, of course, raise vital questions of public safety and the costs we are willing to pay for that safety. They also raise questions of how to understand the complex conditions that give rise to such events¡ªand the conditions for such events are always complex, even when facile "explanations" are readily available, i.e. the violent nature of Islam, their hatred of Western freedom, etc. A consistent element in many such explanations is a pronouncement on the nature of religion, in general, with some, predictably, placing the blame for such hate-filled acts squarely on religion: Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms¡and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today 1 . Salman Rushdie and those seeking to exonerate religion, entirely: This is not¡a war against religion or between religions¨Cit is not anything on religion¡ [The terror attacks] should never be seen as a war of religion ¡ for religion ¡ or on religion 2 . UN Sec- retary-General Ban Ki-moon
