I'd like to wrap up by asking your opinion on something. Typically, people of faith have written scriptures that they feel have some authority. I've sat down with teachers and imams who assure me that they're moderate and they hate the extremism or whatever, but when the conversation is done, there are basically three or four things that they say are essential to Islam: jihad, either personal or corporate, and sharia law as part of the writings, and typically, dhimmi tax has come into that often. Basically, the statement is that if I abide by my scriptures, these are some of the things that are non-negotiable.
In my reading of it, it seems there's a theology of Islam that is infused with a justice system and a political structure that are in the writings. Someone used the words “schizophrenic cultural reality” today, but I'm wondering how you square that circle. Or am I wrong in what I'm saying? Also, how do you bring those things together between a scripture that is 1,200 years old, but seems to have some of these structures built into it, and the modern world?