"Jamal Mecklai: Another look at the new Islam
...Contrary to most perceptions, the change that Islam is going through is a form of modernisation. This struck me very loudly when I was in Istanbul recently on a holiday.
What a city! Fifteen (or 18, depending on who you talk to) million people, visually covering as broad a swathe of humanity as any place in the world (with the possible exception of India), the real bridge between the East and West, the centre of the world. As it had been for centuries. "
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