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Dr Karim Abdul exited the Al Qalam Madrasah in London to face a motley crowd. A cacophony of protests was like the roar of a waterfall. It irked him that Muslims were participating in this public renouncement. To his mind, Islam had been seduced by capitalism, corrupted by modernism. Unbending and fiery clerics like himself were of utmost importance in such times.
While there was a war in the Middle East — one fought with weapons and bombs and trafficking in drugs and humans — another war needed to be fought in the West. With the weapon of civilization, with liberalism in the form of the spoken and written word.
The sea of faces went by in a blur. A white skin attempted to jostle Abdul, but the cordon maintained by his heavies deflected the att
