Jonathan A.C. Brown Quotes & Sayings

The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question. — Jonathan A.C. Brown

Many Americans and Western Europeans proudly trumpet the diversity of cosmopolises like London and New York without realizing that cosmopolitanism does not mean people of different skin colors all sitting around over wine at a bistro table complaining about organized religion. It means people who hold profoundly different, even mutually exclusive, beliefs and cultural norms functioning in a shared space based on toleration of disagreement. — Jonathan A.C. Brown