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In that convention, I took considerable pains to point out that the Muslims in the West had two things going for them. On the one hand, they were as Western as possible. And, on the other hand, they were also, at the same time, as Muslim as possible.
And that no one could take either one of those two components of their unique Islamic-Western composite identity away from them.
And that these two components, though seemingly distinct, were in reality one and the same. And neither could be separated from the other. For, that was the nature of Islam: to integrate all aspects of an individual’s and a people’s existence into one composite whole.