Talk 2: A View from the Muslim Street
Speaker: Abu Shaker Abu Shaker has traveled and lived extensively in the Muslim world, which has changed immeasurably in the past few decades. He will carry first hand evidence for the growing strength of feeling for Islam’s political ideas throughout the Muslim world, but also that people will only consent to systems of government that are based on their beliefs and values. From Turkey to Turkmenistan – an expression of Islamic revival is developing that believes true change can only come from re-building the Islamic civilization, and not from narrow tradition or western liberalism.