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Thursday, November 18, 2004

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Under the Cover of Islam

"November 18, 2004
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Under the Cover of Islam
By IRSHAD MANJI


As one young Turk told me, "If Western values are tolerance, democracy, justice, equality and freedom, then I live in a Western country: Turkey." Try explaining that to those Europeans who want to impose their baggage from the Vatican onto Muslim immigrants. Their secularism can be zealous, missionary - dare I say it, religious.

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