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...panel members, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at the Law School, Michael Ignatieff, director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy and a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, and Bryan Hehir, chair of the Executive Committee of the Divinity School, spoke to a group of about 40 in the Strauss common room...
...forum featured Karen Armstrong, author of various works on Islam; Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture; William Graham, Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion; and Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Islamic Studies...
...Armstrong focused her segment on the word “fundamentalist...
...Armstrong explained fundamentalism as “a religious reaction against secular modernity” that uses fear to control its adherents. She said that extremists like Osama bin Laden skew Islamic history and give it a violent past to justify their terrorist activities...
...Armstrong called Israel the Muslims’ symbolic problem, comparing it to abortion and evolution...