November 2, 2001

Islam, Academe, and Freedom of the Mind

By AKBAR AHMED and LAWRENCE ROSEN

In the weeks since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as America and its allies have set about building coalitions that include many of the Islamic nations, it is easy to lose sight of the issue of intellectual freedom within the Muslim world. While the safety of Western countries may depend on alliances with other regimes, those alliances should not come at the price of abandoning scholars and intellectuals in the Middle East, whose ability to speak out is no less under

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