The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means
The G8 must seize the opportunity to address the wider issues at the root of such atrocities.
“People of The Book” and The Muslims
Today some circles have been presenting a false image of Islam, as if there were conflict between Islam and the adherents of the two other monotheistic religions.
The Anti-Semitism Canard
Anti-Semitism, like all racism, is a dangerous neurosis that society has a duty to stigmatise, even outlaw. We reject the disguised anti-Semitism of Holocaust denial, and believe some Palestinian supporters only discredit themselves by flirting with it.
More about Sincerity
More about Sincerity
Elections, New Muslims and New School
Today, there is no shortage of self-styled ‘experts’ who rush to issue fatwas, and who provide an ever-growing list of things that are bid’ah, [innovations] or haraam [forbidden]. If you take all these people seriously…
Anti-semitism
We must root out this sinister cultural flaw. Even vote-hungry politicians fail to see anti-semitism for what it is.
Nurture the Tree of Islam
That which is Islamic is in a sense obviously that which is radical because it is rooted. Our’s is a time when to be rooted in the past, to be part of an organic entity that goes back centuries has become the strangest and the most unusual thing…
We must not accept this repression
The application of the Islamic penal code – known by the widely misunderstood term sharia – in Muslim societies is one of the most controversial subjects in the dialogue between the west and the Muslim world…