Prof. Bob Hefner featured in Youtube “Khanversation” on Islam and Democracy
On September 4, Bob Hefner was the featured interviewee in a forty nine minute videotaped interview that has subsequently been uploaded to youtube. The interview was conducted by Dr. Muqtedar Khan, a Delaware-based academic and public intellectual who for the past few years has conducted videotaped interviews with Muslim politicians and intellectuals as well as people, who do research on ongoing developments in Muslim majority societies. Khan’s videos are regarded as among the finest on you tube on matters related to the Muslim world, particularly with regards to democracy and human rights.
Khan’s interview with Bob was aimed at giving Khan’s on-line viewers a sense of ongoing developments in Indonesia, a country which has come to assume a world-leading role in efforts to bring about a Muslim politics at once democratic and inclusive.
Indonesia’s Moderate Islam – Secular, Democratic, and Inclusive. A Khanversation with Robert Hefner
