File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0110, message 605


From: Randy.Moon-AT-kctcs.net
Subject: RE: NY Times V.S. Naipaul interview (fwd)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:58:10 -0500


 And yet what he says about the neurosis of conversion and the impulse to
eradicate whatever does not conform to the convert's new vision seems right
on the mark, not only regarding conversion to Islam but to Christianity as
well.

Is there a reluctance by scholars to critically assess the conversion
process in Islam?

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From: WoodenAK-AT-aol.com
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Sent: 10/29/01 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: NY Times V.S. Naipaul interview (fwd)

You've got to love Naipaul on Islam's converts: 



Part of the neurosis of 
the convert is that he always has to prove himself. He has to be more 
royalist than the king, as the French say.



Talk about an epic absence of self-awareness. After all, this is the
true-blue Tory from Trinidad who excoriates the Labor Party for its
crimes against "Englishness"...


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