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Islam – Democracy’s Dilemma?
While the recent Arab Spring uprisings toppled both the Tunisian President Ben Ali and the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, other authoritarian…
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Derrida and the Other Islam: In What Ways If at All, Does Derrida Provide For a New Perception of Islam in the West Post 9/11?
Credits: Rehan Jamil One singular, supposedly “unframeable, unpredictable, and ultimately incomprehensible,” Heidegerrian happenstance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks…
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(In)compatibility of Human Rights and the Islamic Doctrine: Implications for the Future of Human Rights in the World of Islam,
By Matthew Machowski“In a world where giant holocausts have been perpetrated, where human rights are manipulated or blatantly ignored, our Muslim…
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Individual Thinking and the Shari’ah Based System of Governance
“I am a human being; if I order you to do something regarding your religion you must comply. But if…
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‘Banlieues de l’Islam’ in the context of Copenhagen School of Security
“The world of Islam may do more to define and shape Europe in the twenty-first century than the United States, Russia,…
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Reason and Knowledge in Islam
— Reason and Knowledge in Islam — Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) numerously spoke of human knowledge with extremely high respect. One…
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Women of Allah. Veils, Words and Guns: Gender and the Media Coverage of Islam
‘Islam’ defines a relatively small proportion of what actually takes place in the Islamic world, which numbers a billion of people,…
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Salman Rushdie and the freedom…
Watching a documentary on this incredible affair that arose after the publication of Satanic Verses brought up couple of rather…
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Radical Islamism & its roots
‘(…) a response to the impact of modernity, Western encroachment, misrule by the national elite, and a whole series of…
