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ajiss-3025	Barlas, Asma	The Excesses of Moderation: Colloquium on “‘Moderate’ Islam” University of Utah, Feb 21-22, 2004	2005.0	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3304	111	52	The Excesses of Moderation Colloquium on “‘Moderate’ Islam” University of Utah, Feb 21-22, 2004 Asma Barlas I was persuaded to come out here at rather short notice by the promise of a dialogue on some of the issues professor Bernard Weiss has raised in his conceptually nuanced and politically canny essay on “moderate Islam. [that] moder- ate Islam [can] marshal” on its own behalf?2 Why not question the nature of Washington’s interest in “moderate Islam” and its attempts to enlist religion as an instrument of US foreign policy? Lastly, while it may be true, as professor Weiss says, that “How Muslims relate to each other is profoundly connected with how they relate to the West, and especially to the United States,” is it not equally true that how the US and the West relate to Muslims will determine their own future as well?	cache/ajiss-3025.pdf	txt/ajiss-3025.txt