“Humanism is not a science, but religion. . . . Humanists like to think they have a rational view of the world; but their core belief in progress is a superstition, further from the truth about the human animal than any of the world’s religions. —John Gray, Straw Dogs In”
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Wael B. Hallaq,
The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
