What Muslim World?
Even before U.S. President Barack Obama utters a word of his long-anticipated June 4 address to "the Muslim world," there is already a problem with the rhetoric. As well meaning as it sounds, the term "Muslim world" is a trap. There is no unified Muslim world. And describing it as such legitimizes the idea that it is "us vs. them" -- just the sort of divided world that al Qaeda wants to create. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
A thought provoking piece. While he's certainly correct that essentializing identity is often not very useful, there are some U.S. foreign policy issues -- our support of Israel, invasion of Iraq -- that do matter to many Muslims even if their are not Palestinian or Iraqi.