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. . . that's what the burqa is meant for -- to make women disappear, make them invisible, deny them the right to exist as individuals. Any argument to the contrary is spurious and any religious edict cited in support of this grotesque suppression of individual liberty is specious.
In our foreign relations to Islamic nations and in our very perception of Islamic culture in the Middle East and inside the borders of Western nations we operate under the assumption that less influence of religion in politics is good. Secularization is good. Democracy is good.
ONE by one, starting a few weeks ago, 40 militant Islamist Web sites got knocked off the Internet. Gone were some of the world's most active jihadi sites, with forums full of extremist chatter.
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell called "Zionist" and "pedophile" for protesting against the repressive regime of Iran. Six times, police had to intervene for his safety.
For many of us in Europe, Canada is seen (even envied) as a society that is more at ease with its increasing diversity.
An interview with newspaper editor Flemming Rose: Excerpt: "The history of the left, for instance, is a history of confronting authority—be it religious or political authority—and always challenging religious symbols and figures. In this case, they failed miserably.
Note: The following article was published as a response to an editorial in The Diplomat, a top Canadian international affairs magazine, which explicitly claimed that the Arab-Israeli conflict–and specifically Israel's "occupation" policy–was at the root of all the pro …
This is certainly not the first time in history that elements of the left have come around the back end of the political circle into an open embrace of the far-right - an embrace, one should note, that is almost never returned except through a kiss of death.
That there is no compulsion in Islam and that Islam is a religion of peace are common refrains among Muslim activists, academics, officials, and journalists.
With a recent article, "The List: The World's Stupidest Fatwas," Foreign Policy, of all publications, manifests a lack of political correctness that's not only surprising, but borders on the giddy.
The Turkish parliament has elected Abdullah Gul, the current foreign minister, as president after a third round of voting. However, political analysts said that Gul faces an important test in allaying fears that his term will raise the role of religion in public life. Vot …
Recent reports on the Islamic regime of Iran's crackdown on women who are 'badly' veiled (bad-hejab) and their resistance to the regime's campaign of arrest and harassment has been reported quite extensively in comparison to other similar events over the years.
When will the West awaken? Of course, I am not talking about your ordinary citizen or soldier but about our Talking Heads and other gate-keeping chatterers who simply refuse to "get it."
With Morocco in high terror alert due to what the security forces called "established terror threats" from a regional branch of al-Qaeda the presence of the stern looking Moroccan police was ever prevalent in the streets of El Jadida and Casablanca.
Nevertheless, the presence of doctors and engineers in fundamentalist movements stands out. In fact, fundamentalist leaders often have professional backgrounds.
While such offensives occur periodically, this year's has been carried out with unusual intensity over a prolonged period amid accusations that the US is trying to topple the Islamic regime through a "soft revolution".
Mainstream Islam has allowed the debate on how to develop religion and society to be hijacked by its more extreme groups, who are a lot more vocal and more effective at getting their message out to both the community of the faithful and to the non-Islamic world.
If Pervez Musharraf survives politically after the Lal Majid episode, it will mark the retreat of Islamism in Pakistan and subsequently in the sub-continent.
One of the more vivid voices marking the second anniversary of London's July 7 attacks is that of Hassan Butt. He's calling on Muslims to renounce terror, and he speaks from experience: Hassan Butt spent years inside what he calls "Britain's jihadi network."
When Resolution 1701 was adopted, Israel urged the Security Council to deploy international forces or monitors along the Lebanese-Syrian border to prevent such weapons deliveries. Intimidated by threats of attacks on U.N. troops, the council refused.
The students affiliated with the mosque range in age from teenagers to people in their 30s, most from conservative areas near the Afghan border.
Ali Hili, the gay Iraqi activist who blew the whistle on grand ayatollah al-Sistani's death-fatwa against homosexuals, recently appeared on Talking With Tatchell on online 'TV' station 18 Doughty Street. Here is a summary of what he had to say Or you can watch the show.
Ahmadinejad, the man of blind surprises and atrocious offensive statements, is leading his people today to a new suffering and a stricter siege than ever before, through his intransigence and adoption of a policy of setting fire in all directions.
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