âPolitical Islamâ dominates national and global news with popular revolutions, dictatorships, terrorism, jihad, suicide bombings and beheadings, perpetually in the headlines. The âMuslim Worldâ has become synonymous with war, conflict, crisis and violence. As such âIslam,â particularly after 9-11, has become the definitive âOtherâ of America, driving both the logics...