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Democracy and Muslim Minorities


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In this issue, we consider three democracies and their relationship to Muslim minority communities.


Martha C. Nussbaum examines how the stereotype of the “Muslim terrorist” is further marginalizing Muslim liberals in India

John R. Bowen probes how the emergence of sharia tribunals serving a Muslim minority will affect English law and women

David Mikhail on what the experience of Shakir Baloch, a Muslim moderate detained after 9/11, means for the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world
Mark Dow responds.



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