Who Speaks For Islam? Not John Esposito

by Winfield Myers  •  May 28, 2009 at 9:11 am

http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2009/05/who-speaks-for-islam-not-john-esposito

	John Esposito

In a Campus Watch-sponsored article, Stanford undergraduate Jonathan Gelbart reports today on Georgetown professor John Esposito's May 13 lecture at Stanford. In "Who Speaks for Islam? Not John Esposito," Gelbart shows that Esposito's efforts to put a happy face on radical Islam fell flat:

Georgetown University Professor John Esposito is the media's favorite go-to man for questions about Islam. As the founding director of the Saudi-financed Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown, he is also notorious for downplaying radical Islam. Stanford University hosted his latest round of apologetics on May 13.

Esposito, who spoke at Stanford last year, was on campus to promote the film version of his recent book (co-authored with Dalia Mogahed of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies), Who Speaks For Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think. He was joined by the film's executive producer, Muslim convert Michael Wolfe. The 55-minute film claims to present the results of the "largest, most comprehensive study" of Muslim opinion ever done. The crowd's political leaning were evident in the audible hisses that greeted the cinematic image of former President George W. Bush.

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