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The Muslim Speaks reimagines Islam as an alternative interpretive strategy for investigating the modern condition. Rather than imagining Islam as a second order problem external to a discrete West, Khurram Hussain constructs it as a first order problem, internal to the elaboration and expansion of the West, revealing three discursive traps (freedom, reason and culture) that inhibit the availability of Islam as a feasible, critical interlocutor in Western deliberations about moral, intellectual and political concerns.
Through close examination of this inhibition, Hussain acknowledges sentiments that nudge Muslims toward either/or descriptions of their experiences and identity and posits that while Islamophobia is clearly a moral wrong, 'depoliticization' more accurately describes the problems associated with the lived experience of Muslims in the West and elsewhere. Weaving together his conclusions in the hope of a common world emergent as an interconnected unity, Khurram Hussain boldy and quite radically deems that what Islam needs is not depoliticization but infact repoliticization.
