« Five Books on Iran | Main | Exegesis of Matthew 2:1-12 »
October 10, 2007
Islam’s Quiet Revolution
Islam’s Quiet Revolution
by Samuel Gregg D.Phil.
"[bin-Laden]’s probably aware -- and worried -- that several thousand miles to the south-west of his Afghan-Pakistani hideaway, small but important Muslim countries are gradually embracing features of those very same market-systems he despises. ...
"Economic liberalization is not a panacea for all the Muslim-Arab world’s problems. These go far beyond economic issues. But while economic liberty and free markets are not sufficient for societies to be free, they are essential. ...
"But as the nineteenth-century French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville observed long ago, economic freedom has a way of loosening those bonds that unjustly diminish other legitimate expressions of human liberty -- including, it seems, in Muslim cultures."
economics | By nick | 12:37 PM
