Islam

Video: How the ideas of America and Islam converge

by News Sources 05.22.2013
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Atheists and Islam

by Paul Woodward 12.02.2012

The Economist: A mob attacked Alexander Aan even before an Indonesian court in June jailed him for two and a half years for “inciting religious hatred”. His crime was to write “God does not exist” on a Facebook group he had founded for atheists in Minang, a province of the world’s most populous Muslim nation. [...]

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The myths of Muslim rage

by News Sources 09.28.2012

Kenan Malik writes: Salman Rushdie’s memoir, Joseph Anton, has hit the bookshelves just as the world has become embroiled in a new controversy over Islamic sensibilities. The extraordinary violence unleashed across the Muslim world by Innocence of Muslims, an obscure US-made video, has left many bewildered and perplexed. Rushdie was, of course, at the centre [...]

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Breaking the wall of religious dogma

by News Sources 09.24.2012

At Open Democracy Sara Azmeh Rasmussen argues that commentary on the protests triggered by the anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, has focused on the political and economic dimensions of the protests while side-stepping religious questions and specifically the issue of the infallibility of the prophet. The tradition and collective experience of Islam has been shaped [...]

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