-By Warner Todd Huston
OK, here is something odd. I just found out I was quoted in the book “Islam without Extremes: a Muslim case for liberty” by Mustafa Akyol published a few years ago. (Norton Press, 2011)
The book is apparently an attempt to reconcile Islam with western ideals of liberty and freedom.
I found the quote through a review of the book by Gamal Nkrumah of Al-Ahram Weekly, a newspaper from Cairo, Egypt. Nkrumah notes that Akyol quoted me saying this: “We need to understand just how brutal Islam is in how it treats its most vulnerable members: girls and women.” (In Akyol’s book on page 31)
This quote of mine is from an article in which I was discussing the criminal act of female circumcision practiced by Muslims. (Muslim mutilation of little girl in Atlanta, Georgia)
Akyol said I was wrong to put female circumcision on Islam proper because, he says, it is a cultural idea not one prescribed by the Koran. Me, I don’t see a difference because practitioners say they are doing it in the name of Islam and until the practice is stopped (by Muslims) it is a integral part of their religious practices.
Anyway, I found it interesting that I was quoted in this book and that I was wholly unaware of it until now.
I know that I have had my work printed in two college textbooks, but it makes me wonder how many other books I appear in out there?
Not bragging. More like it amuses me.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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