Islamic Religion and Culture Links

Islamic Religion and Culture Links

Apostates and Apostasy

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali: My life under a fatwa


• Danger woman


• Egypt's Christian converts risk abuse


• Egyptian court refuses to rule in case of Muslim convert to Christianity


• Hirsi Ali, atheism, and Islam


• Muslim apostates cast out and at risk from faith and family


• The Strange Journey of Ayaan Hirsi Ali: From Devout Muslim to Outspoken 'Feminist' Critic of Islam

Christian/Western Relations with Muslims

• How 'cherry-picking' militant Islam can win


• In Africa, Islam and Christianity are growing--and blending


• Islam and the West: The Threat, the Defense


• Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of 'Two-Faced' Muslims


• Last Rites in the Holy Land?


• Machete killings fuel Indonesia's religious hatred


• Muslims call for peace with Christians


• Muslims send warm Christmas message


• Pressure rises on Christians in Jordan, Algeria


• Ten Things to Think When Thinking of Muslim 'Moderates'


• The Pope and Islam


• The Western Mind of Radical Islam


• Vatican Cautions Against Muslim-Catholic Marriages


• You say you want a reformation?

Europe

• 'Europeans Have Stopped Defending Their Values'


• 'The Trouble Is the West'


• Enlightenment fundamentalism or racism of the anti-racists?


• Hardline takeover of British mosques


• Muslim children in Britain 'brought up to hate their homeland'


• Rowan Williams has shown us one thing--why multiculturalism must be abandoned


• Shari'a rulings on divorces and disputes to be rubber-stamped by English courts


• The Fall of France and the Multicultural World War


• Welcome to Saudi-Britain

Islamism

• Food crisis creates an opening for Islamists


• In Algeria, a Tug of War for Young Minds


• Jihadism's roots in political Islam


• Kuwait's empowered Islamists question all things Western


• Morocco's Gentle War on Terrorism


• Parties of God: The Bush doctrine and the rise of Islamic democracy


• Post-Islamism

Terrorism

• Seeking Meaning from a Grand Imam


• The myth of Muslim support for terrorism

Treatment of Women and Children, Human Rights, and Adapting to the Modern World

• 'Everyone Is Afraid to Criticize Islam'


• 'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'


• East-west-democracy


• For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats


• Free at last: Female slave who dared to take Niger to court


• Islam's Silent Moderates


• Lebanon cleric advises 'modern Shi'as'


• Murdered in the name of family honour


• My View of Islam


• Pakistan's Musharraf berates Muslim world


• Prophet and Loss


• The Owl and the Ostrich


• The Soap Opera Washing Through Saudi Arabia


• Tiny Voices Defy Child Marriage in Yemen


• Turkish Theologians Revise Hadith, to Mixed Reactions


• WANTED: Wafa Sultan


• Why Arab women are still in the slow lane of reform


• Why Is It That the People of the Book Have Overtaken the Muslim World?


• Witness Online Ayatollah, Part 1 (YouTube video)

Miscellaneous

• Cousin Marriage Conundrum


• Of Documentaries and Dehumanization


• The Fallacy of Islamic 'National Suicide'


• The Koran


• The Middle East's Tribal Affliction


• Violence Leaves Young Iraqis Doubting Clerics