Word.

It seems to me that the most important single misrecognition committed in contemporary Islamophobia in the United States is the belief in a monolithic Islamic world and Muslim community, the sense that there is a discrete unit known as “Islam,” as opposed to its binary opposite, “the West.” This way of looking at human realities is an absurd reduction, and in the case of the Islamic world it crucially elides the kaleidoscopic heterogeneity of Muslim traditions, societies, civilizations, beliefs and practices. In reality, there is no such thing as simply “Islam,” there is a multiplicity of different Islams, since Islam as a social phenomenon and a social text has manifested itself in such an extraordinary range of differing and sometimes contradictory incarnations.

How I love it when people say what I think, but so much more coherently.