Modernism and Reformism
Amil Imani
Islam Bashers Repent
By: Amil Imani
What does it take to make Islam bashers mend their ways? Why don’t these folks come to their senses and see Islam as a religion of peace and praise the God of Abraham for continuing his beneficence on humanity by sending Muhammad to guide and humanize us?
Why is it that some people keep criticizing a religion that has nearly 1.5 billion followers throughout...
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حکم اعدام شیرکو معارفی به تعویق افتاد
بدنبال موجی از اعتراض در ایران
و در سطح بین المللی، حکم اعدام شیرکو معارفی که قرار بود امروز شنبه ٢٣ آبان در
زندان شهر سقز اجرا شود فعلا به تعویق افتاده و شیرکو که به بند قرنطینه منتقل شده
بود به بند عمومی منتقل شده است....
Louis Palme
By Louis Palme
[Article first published in ANNAQED on October 14, 2009]
Americans are among the most tolerant and patriotic people in the world. As a nation of immigrants, there is a certain appeal to the idea of multiculturalism where people of different backgrounds are accepted in our communities. Our nation was founded on the principles of equality and freedom, and we have invested our...
Jacob Thomas
By Jacob Thomas
On 7 July, 2009, the daily online Al-Awan published an article by a reformist Algerian intellectual unmasking the hypocrisy of the Islamic propaganda machine that seeks to paint a rosy picture of the human rights conditions in the “Lands Governed by the Sharia.” He began, with tongue in cheek, to quote a paragraph written in a flowery Arabic style that sang the praises of the...
Sami Alrabaa
Dr. Sami Alrabaa
What has Tony Blair, former British prime minister, achieved since his appointment, in July 2007, as special envoy of the Middle East Peace
"Quartet" (comprised of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia)? Nothing.
What has the former U.S. senator, George Mitchell, achieved since assuming his job as the United States Special envoy for the Middle...
Dr. Laina Farha...
Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman
I remember my first encounter with anthropology in college when we were taught that cultures are neither bad nor good – but are reasonable to their members. I have since learned that this extremely generous concept was intended to counteract the Western bias of 19th century anthropology, being as it was, part of European colonialism.
In Europe and Canada, some have...
Acharya SD.M. M...
I have been a fan of archaeology since I was a child, and I studied it formally in college as well as postgraduate school. I have excavated on two continents, including at the ancient Greek site of Corinth, where tradition has it that St. Paul addressed the Corinthians. I have also studied the archaeology of numerous other cultures and have been fascinated with the amazing treasures of the past...
Jeffrey Imm
Jeffrey Imm
There is no challenge or priority greater for our generation larger than the continuing global oppression of women, who represent half of humanity. This challenge for women's equality and women's freedom must be a concerted effort by men and women together for the futures of our daughters, our sisters, our nieces, and the billions of women who are counting on our courage to defend...
Sami Alrabaa
Dr. Sami Alrabaa
We Arabs not only suffer from lack of political and religious freedom, and economic backwardness, but we also suffer from a huge language and thinking problem, which hampers civilized change.
The Arab countries have two levels of language: local Arabic, i.e. national and regional, called language varieties (dialects) versus Standard...
Dr. K Prabhakar Rao
Prof Dr Colonel ( Retired)K Prabhakar Rao
Only one Muslim country, the Turkish republic has formally separated religion from State as law. It’s founder Mustafa Kamal (Ata Turk) has enacted the removal of Islam from the constitution and abrogation of Shariat, which ceased to be a part of the law of the land. Several Muslim States restricted Shariat to marriage, divorce and inheritance and...
David Anderson
David Anderson
How al-Banna's anti-West Islamist movement succeeded in inspiring Muslims to rejecting Western liberalism, and spawned the emergence of global imperialist Islamic movements like al-Qaeda...
The First World War had finally come to an end. The European victors could now turn their attention to the Middle Eastern vacuum. Muslims from Cairo to Jeddah to Jerusalem to Damascus were...
Jonathan David ...
By Jonathan David Carson
We know that we are being lied to. Sometimes we just don't realize how much we are being lied to.
The more sordid the Islamic present seems, the more we are told of the glories of the Islamic past. And the most glorious of the glories of Islam, the most enlightened of its enlightenments, are the "Islamic science" and "Islamic philosophy" of the Golden Age.
So what does...
Edmund Pickett
By Edmund Pickett
The Muslim campaign of violence against free speech in Europe, which began with the Danish cartoon riots, intensified recently with the firebombing of the home of a British publisher. His offense? He was planning to publish "The Jewel of Medina," a novel about one of Mohammed's wives. The fanatics who destroyed his house were not angry at the content of the book; it had not been...
Sami Alrabaa
Dr. Sami Alrabaa
Have you ever pondered what has been the contribution of Islam and Muslims to the world civilization until now? The answer is very evident and straightforward: oppression, violence, discrimination, and fanaticism. These negative immoral values have been an essential part of Islam since its inception.
Here is the evidence. Muhammad, the leader of Muslims claimed that he was a "...
Ali Sina
Since, thanks to Islamic terrorism the interest to know Islam has picked and Islam has come under scrutiny, the westerners began asking where are the moderate Muslims. Well, there is none. The concept is absurd. Muslims view this issue differently. You are either a 'good' practicing Muslim or a bad wishy-washy Muslim. It’s the latter group that the westerners have misnamed moderate Muslims. As...
M A Khan
The Muslim world is obviously in a mess. Political instability, unbridled corruption, lack of economic development, widespread intolerance and violence, and lack of freedom, liberty and human rights are some of the traits that characterize Muslim societies most glaringly. All indications suggest that things will get only worse over coming decades.
Amongst many factors that differentiate Muslim...
Amar Khan
Javed Ahmad Ghamdi’s attempts of reformation
There is a quote that “religion of one stage of people is the source of amusement of the next stage of people”. Every false belief that exists today will die with the passage of time. Similarly, Islam is to die its natural death but what we want actually is to accelerate its rate so that more bloodshed in the name of Islam can be stopped. In European...
