This can succeed only if we engage in vigorous exchange with each other in order to create a kind of mutual respect for these different views. The advancing force of Islamophobia in Europe and the US, with its attempt to reduce Islam’s complex and varied history to a few demagogic slogans, is the kind of utterly ignorant stupidity – there’s no better description of it – on which democratic societies founder.
只有我们不断努力和他人沟通并在这些观点之间建立相互尊重，这个目标才能成功。在欧洲和美国的反伊斯兰势力，还有其试图将伊斯兰教丰富的历史简化为几句口号的做法，是对民主社会构建基础的彻底无知和愚昧——没有形容词比这更准确了。