CONTENTS -- ACkNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. THE PROBLEM Of RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE -- FROM INCOMPREHENSION TO INDIGNATION -- SETTING THE STAGE -- BETWEEN APOLOGETICS AND ETHNOCENTRISM -- 2. 9/11 AND VARIETIES Of SOCIAL CRITICISM -- HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS -- ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS -- THE RELATIVIST ARGUMENT -- THE INTERNALIST CRITIQUE -- 3. RIGHTS TO LIFE AND SECURITY -- TRANSPARENT WRONGFULNESS -- RESPECT FOR DIGNITY AND MORAL SUBJECTIVITY -- MORAL AGENCY AND THE LOGICAL ENTAILMENT Of RIGHTS -- 4. TOLERATION, EQUALITY, AND THE BURDENS OF JUDGMENT -- REASONS FOR TOLRATION -- SUBMISSION AND RESPECT -- IMPLICATIONS OF TOLERATION FOR OTHERS -- 5. RESPECT AND RECOGNITION -- RECOGNITION RESPECT AND APPRAISAL RESPECT -- HERMENEUTICAL CRITICISM AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE -- ON BENEFIT-OF-THE-DOUBT RESPECT -- 6. RELIGION, DIALOGUE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- ISLAMIZING HUMAN RIGHTS -- Fitra AS GROUNDS FOR RESPECT -- SPECIAL AND GENERAL DIVINE COMMAND MORALITY -- 7. LIBERAL SOCIAL CRITICISM AND THE ETHICS Of BELIEF -- ON THE PRIORITY OF RELIGION TO ETHICS -- ON THICK AND THIN MORALITY -- ON PROXIMITY AND DISTANCE -- APPENDIX 1: THE RIGHT TO WAR AND SELF-DEFENSE -- COLLECTIVE DEFENSE:REDUCTIVE AND ANALOGICAL STRATEGIES -- THE RIGHT Of NATIONAL SECURITY -- APPENDIX 2: IS ATTACKING THE TALIBAN AND AL QAEDA JUSTIFIED? -- JUST-WAR DOCTRINE -- ON ATTACKING AFGHANISTAN -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.