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? -----Original Message----- 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"... --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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