Side Views - Senseless rage over anti-Islam film — Islamic Renaissance Front @ Sat Sep 22 2012. SEPT 22 — The Islamic Renaissance Front views the recent murders and uproar over the film “Innocence of Muslims” with much sadness and bafflement.
All available facts suggest that “Innocence of Muslims” is not even a film. Mohammed movie embassy attacks: Don’t let Internet videos drive you to violence. Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, and Jews,
Ayaan Hirsi Ali:The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World. Islam 'recognizes homosexuality' Homosexuals and homosexuality are natural and created by God, thus permissible within Islam, a discussion concluded here Thursday.
Moderate Muslim scholars said there were no reasons to reject homosexuals under Islam, and that the condemnation of homosexuals and homosexuality by mainstream ulema and many other Muslims was based on narrow-minded interpretations of Islamic teachings. A Question of Interpretation. Shirin Ebadi: “Democracy means the government considers the rights of minorities.”
Human rights lawyer and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, spoke with The Majalla on the relationship between religion and politics, the role of women in the Arab Spring, Iran’s controversial nuclear campaign and the continuing Syrian crisis. Pakistan wants halt to Arab 'religious colonialism' Insight: How Islamic are Islamic countries? A rejoinder. Prof.
Komaruddin Hidayat, the rector of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN), wrote an interesting column in Jakarta’s leading newspaper on Indonesian Islamicity. His article is a rejoinder to a study conducted by Scheherazade S. Rehman and Hossein Askari from George Washington University. Published in the Berkeley-based Global Economy Journal, Volume 10, 2010, this study examines if policies of the Muslim world were founded on Islamic teachings in comparison to those in non-Muslim countries. All up, 208 countries were studied. Indicators such as economic opportunity, economic freedom, equal access to education, corruption, financial systems and human rights were used to measure the degree of Islamicity in those countries. Thus, this study was basically a critical assessment of the Muslim world with respect to their social, economic and political practices, which did not seem to confirm the substance of Islamic values.
Most Islamic countries in the world are non-Muslim. What makes a good Islamic country?
Problems with Islam. Articles: Civilization Clash between Islam and the West by Alamgir Hussain.
The controversial debate about the clash of civilizations between Islam and the West took a spectacular turn on the fateful day of 9/11. Why Some Muslim Women Don't Wear Hijab. First of all, I’m a believer: I’m a practicing Muslim. Second, I don’t wear hijab. And from here my story starts. One day, a male friend tagged me on a note in Facebook; it’s about a conversation between a non-Muslim man and an Islamic cleric. The man asks: “Why does Islam oblige Muslim women to wear hijab?” The myth of how the hijab protects women against sexual assault. By Josh Shahryar/Guest Blogger — September 6, 2012 I was only 6 years old when my family was forced to flee the civil war in Afghanistan for Pakistan in the late 1980s.
My sister, Neelo, who is five years older than me, was enrolled in a Saudi-funded Muslim Brotherhood-inspired public school for Afghan refugees. She, like many Muslim women, wore a simple headscarf. I remember Neelo picking up her tiny bag, wrapping her scarf around her hair, and going to her first day of school. I also sadly remember her coming back from school that day and telling our parents: “The guards told me, ‘Either you are going to wear the full hijab or wear a chador [an Afghan burqa], or you can't come to school.’” The school she was going to was run by archconservatives. The myth that there's a correlation between the hijab and a low incidence of sexual harassment and violence against women actually systematically victimizes them.
Islam: The Untold Story - Islam: The Untold Story. Channel 4 cancels Tom Holland’s history of Islam, but the extremists will not win. In what may prove to be the most depressingly predictable story of the year, we learn that Channel 4 has chosen to cancel a screening of Tom Holland’s programme ‘Islam: the untold story‘ tomorrow night because of threats to the author and presenter.
If there is a reason why so many stories and facts to do with Islam remain ‘untold’ it is simply because of this. None of the people who threatened Tom Holland even have to mean it — the threat is enough to ensure that Channel 4 don’t go ahead. I don’t blame them, and have seen this happen too many times, in too many different countries, to be surprised. Not all threats have to be taken seriously (the Tom Daley Twitter case being one such example), but when they come from quarters which have acted on such threats before then they should be. Southeast Asian Muslims Among World’s Most Devout - Southeast Asia Real Time. Associated Press Indonesian Muslims perform Eid al-Fitr prayers that mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Porong, East Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 19.
Southeast Asia’s Muslims can be confident that when it comes to some key beliefs they are among the most devout in the world.