Editor's Desk
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Undoing the Church in Islam In earlier times, Islam was marked by simplicity and spontaneity. When Abraham, the archetypal Muslim and the role model for all submitters to come, was asked to submit (his will to God), he did it with utmost spontaneity; he said: ‘I submit to the Lord and Cherisher of the universe’ (Qur’an, 2:131). And similar was the case with the Queen of Sheba who wasted no time in accepting the truth…
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Leaders
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Islam and the West: How We Can Bridge the Gap
The contemporary relations between the West and the countries of the Muslim world are characterized by mutual fear, suspicion, mistrust and misunderstanding, a condition that I call “moral panic.” This…
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Secularism and not Islam is the real enemy of the Vatican
The inauguration of Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI has brought to the fore a host of issues, which threaten to undermine his papacy. Chief amongst them is the competition…
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Insight
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RE-THINKING HUDOOD LAWS
Islam and human rights is much debated issue and most of the scholars agree that Islam not only conforms to the norms of human rights but also is precursor in…
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The Global Ideology Of Fear Or The Globalization Of The Israel Syndrome
These are strange and difficult times. One might have thought that, in a globalizing age, ideological debate would have focused on how we make our economic and political choices. On…
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Between Twin Fundamentalisms: Muslims amidst Global Injustice and Extremism
Introduction The twenty first century has both good news and bad news for religious people. The good news is that the Middle age theory of secularization has been falsified by…
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