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Following the Taliban’s rapid taking of power in what it describes as a reestablished “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” fears of a certain kind of Islamist ideology being brought back have led a large number of Afghans to flee, or fear for their lives.
The Taliban were known for their oppressive (...)
Marieme Helie Lucas, an Algerian sociologist and freedom fighter, founder of the solidarity networks Women Living Under Muslim Laws, and Secularism is a Women’s Issue argues that the roots of the murder of Samuel Paty go back to the 1990s and the experience of Algerians in the ‘war against (...)
Self-présentation of the platerform SEDAA.
ABOUT SEDAA
Sedaa is a platform which will feature writers of Muslim heritage. We use the term “of Muslim heritage” because we seek to bring together both those who identify as Muslims, and those who have left the religion.
We have set up this website (...)
The revolutionary process in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has suffered through a period of defeats and setbacks since the heady days of 2011. Progressive and democratic forces have been or are being squeezed by two counterrevolutionary forces—the existing regimes and various strains (...)
Ashley Smith: One of the key developments in the Middle East over the last three decades has been the rise of what commentators variously call political Islam, Islamism, and Islamic fundamentalism. Why do you argue that this political current is better called Islamic fundamentalism, and what (...)
For the past three decades, we have been witnessing the implementation in politics of the concept of perversity in psychology. Case study, truly.
I first realized that during the ‘dark decade’ in Algeria, which made about 200 000 victims, most of them at the hands of armed fundamentalist groups (...)
The terror group recommended that jihadis use “a pickup truck as a mowing machine” in crowded locations.
Using a vehicle to run down individuals – the Nice attacker, a French-Tunisian named locally as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a refrigerated truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day – has (...)
Isis is under pressure on almost every front in Iraq and Syria. It cannot withstand ground attacks backed by precision bombing from the US-led air armada and the same is true of the Syrian army supported by Russian bombers
Isis has suffered a series of military reversals in Iraq and Syria (...)
NOT MUCH IS yet known about Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old man French police say is responsible for a horrific act of mass murder last night in the southern city of Nice. In the wake of the killings, French President Francois Hollande has denounced the attack as “Islamist terrorism” (...)
Turkey, Erdogan and “Moderate” Islam
In his latest statement, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared women without babies to be ‘incomplete’. “Rejecting motherhood means giving up on humanity,” he continued, adding, “I would recommend having at least three children.”
This is one of the (...)
Paper presented at the Asia Europe People’s Form (AEPF) being held from July 4-6, 2016 at Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. Religious terrorism has become one of the major challenges for most of the countries in Asia, particularly in South and West Asia. It has resulted in a seemingly nonstop bombings, (...)
Two histories of Isis hope to shed light on the crisis in the Middle East.
For a group that only officially entered the Syrian conflict in 2013, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis) can sometimes appear to have been around for much longer than it has. Indeed, so dramatic has its rise (...)
Distortions over Isis involvement in Orlando play into the hands of the jihadists. However, such attacks will continue to be inspired or organised by Isis so long as it exists - with Western nations needing to do more to confront the ideology behind the rise of the group.
Isis will benefit (...)
While researching and interviewing people for a book I’m writing about international progressive politics, I’ve observed with sadness the deep fissures within the progressive movement about how U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East should be framed and understood.
One of the biggest complaints (...)
Saying ‘terrorism has nothing to do with Islam’ is as problematic as saying ‘all Muslims are terrorists’. Both these statements provide sweeping generalization for a complex issue.
In a recent exam, I was asked a mind-boggling question: How to save Pakistan from secularism? It could have been (...)
The writer, an Algerian sociologist, is the founder and former international coordinator of the international solidarity network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws. Editors of SabrangIndia had sent the author a critique of the Riss editorial in Charlie Hebdo dated March 30, 2016 to which this is a (...)
There have been quite a number of reactions to the Riss editorial in the latest issue (March 30) of Charlie Hebdo weekly, often based on bad or incomplete translations. For the records, we reproduce here this editorial as it appears on Charlie’s website.
HOW DID WE END UP HERE ? For a week (...)
Last month the Algerian novelist and journalist Kamel Daoud astonished the readers of Le Monde in Paris by threatening to renounce journalism, not because he is afraid of Islamists at home in Algeria, though a fatwa has been issued against him, but for another reason, which is still more (...)
Review of Un Silence Religieux. La Gauche Face au Djihadisme. Jean Birnbaum. Seuil 2015.
“Quand on voudra s’occuper utilement du bonheur des hommes, c’est par les dieux du Ciel que la réforme doit commencer.” When we wish to carry out some useful work for human happiness, reform will have to begin (...)
In 2016, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain will continue to highlight the cases of those languishing in prisons or on death row for apostasy or blasphemy, including:
Abdulaziz Dauda, also known as Abdul Inyass, an Islamic scholar sentenced to death in Nigeria for blasphemy for a lecture (...)
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