Islam and the Manufacture of Low Self-Esteem:

How a Theology of Submission Produces a Politics of Victimhood and Violence

Islam does not merely offer a spiritual framework. It engineers the self. And it does so through a system that is simultaneously absolutist in doctrine and totalitarian in scope. To understand how it produces a persistent culture of grievance, one must first understand what kind of self Islam allows to exist.

I. The Islamic Self: Humiliation as Theology

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