Monotheism as a Political Problem: Political Islam and the Attack on Religious Equality and Freedom

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2008 (145):87-102 (2008)
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Abstract

The relation between religion and politics is a legal-philosophical theme that has once again come to the foreground, due primarily to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the ensuing international debate on the nature of Islam. Yet every discussion of Islam encounters the resistance of political correctness, which exercises an enormous pressure on academic freedom, often resulting in self-censorship. Philosophy does not have as its primary goal the establishment of world peace. Instead, it begins by asking questions and by analyzing reality, even if those questions and analyses turn out to be very painful to religious or political powers. Nietzsche..

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