Islam and Socialism: Two Challenges to American Self-Government
Join the Providence District for breakfast and a conversation with scholar Dr. Dan Brubaker on two forces shaping American public life — one religious, one political — and what they mean for ordered liberty and self-government.
Our speaker will look at each on its own terms: contemporary political Islam as he has studied it in the sources, and socialist politics as it is now practiced in American elections and institutions. This is not an abstract lecture. Both forces now have a real, and often controversial, presence inside the Democratic Party.
The aim is a clear, serious conversation, not a scare session, what these two forces mean for ordered liberty, where the rough edges actually are, and how citizens should respond without panic or denial.
Dr. Dan Brubaker
Dr. Brubaker is a scholar of the Quran with some twenty years in the field. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Rice University and is the author of Corrections in Early Qurʾān Manuscripts (2019), a work of primary-source manuscript research that has drawn international attention and response. A Rockwell Scholar at Rice from 2014 to 2016, he now pursues his manuscript research as an independent scholar. He teaches Quran and early Islamic history at the graduate level as a professor at Veritas International University and serves as vice-chancellor of Mission Muslim World University, both accredited Christian institutions. Dr. Brubaker is broadly familiar with the classical and contemporary Islamic and Arabic sources.
He has also written directly on the American political questions this hour will raise: By the People? — The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and the Theft of Americans' Right to Self-Rule (2022), and What's Wrong With Socialism — A Biblical Investigation for Everyone (2024). Few speakers bring documented, book-length work to both the religious and the political challenges before us.
A resident of Loudoun County, Dan approaches these questions as both a scholar and a Christian—concerned not to stir fear, but rather to help fellow citizens see clearly and respond wisely.
Join us as Dr. Brubaker examines these two challenges to the American experiment in self-government, and what a thoughtful, faithful response to each might look like.
