Akbar Ganji, a prominent Iranian dissident and journalist who spent six years in prison, is on tour in Europe and the United States, where he has won numerous human rights awards. Ganji is considered one of Iran’s leading investigative journalists.
Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar yesterday stressed common characteristics among “socialist utopia, nationalist dreams, and radical Islamism…
Time to circumscribe the interpretation and applications of sharia. M. Zuhdi Jasser provides a lengthy commentary on religious law in Muslim majority nations in light of the recent apostasy case of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan. We need to begin a public discourse within the Muslim community about the role, place, and limitations of implementation of sharia in Muslim majority nations.
Aside from the old rehash over disbanding the Iraqi army or tardiness in forming a government, three observations can be made about this ﾓreadjustmentﾔ in belief.
Recent arrests for religious laws signals a waning of the separation of mosque and state in a nation which is hailed as an example of moderation but is becoming more conservative.
There is a deep similarity and echo chamber with the neo-Nazis and Islamofascists.
Two religious liberty advocates appointed this week to serve as Commissioners on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) are being met with sharply differing responses.
Top U.S. and European leaders called Thursday for Syria’s president to step down, significantly ratcheting up international pressure against a regime that has been criticized for its harsh crackdown against anti-government protesters.
The Obama administration’s push to address the specter of nuclear terrorism has some proliferation experts fretting that the White House isn’t as focused on the more likely scenario of being attacked with chemical or biological weapons.
A secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals now operates dozens of charter schools – which receive government money but are not required to adopt a state-approved curriculum – on U.S. soil.