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22 September, 2004
22 September 2004
UPI's Anwar Iqbal has made a stunning discovery about Islam: While it may seem "more like a political ideology" than a religion to you and me, Muslims, in fact, "say they also find spiritual fulfillment in their faith." In a story only The Washington Times could run without shame, Iqbal quotes an American convert who thinks his fellow Muslims "'confuse political issues with their religious beliefs,'" a Pakistani lawyer who calls for the separation of religion and politics, and removes all context from a citation of Karen Armstrong to suggest the conclusion that all Muslims really need to do is come to terms with Western success.

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