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What Makes Islam Different?
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What Makes Islam Different?

Part II: Does America have a Muslim problem?

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This article was first published on Ayaan’s new platform, Courage.Media.

Islam came into contact with Hellenistic ideas early on in its history, as it expanded by conquest across the Middle East and North Africa. The Muslim conquerors initially incorporated this Athenian inheritance into their world view.

The Mu’tazilites school of Islamic thought, which…

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