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By webmaster, on May 31st, 2010
Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
European campaigns to ban burqas, the Swiss vote to bar new construction of minarets and attempted terrorist acts in the United States have renewed questions and concerns about the compatibility of Islam with Western society. Swiss-born scholar and philosopher of Islam Tariq Ramadan has written and spoken on the subject, generating widespread debate and reaction.
The U.S. State Department recently overturned his six-year ban from the country, allowing him to visit and speak in the U.S. How have his experiences influenced his views on the reform of radical Islam and the bridging of cultural differences? What can Western Muslims do to balance faith and modernity? And what lies ahead for the future of Islam in Europe, the U.S. and the rest of the world? Ramadan addressed these questions and related topics at a press luncheon hosted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Ramadan is a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Oxford’s St Antony’s College. He is also the president of a Brussels-based think tank, European Muslim Network, and the author of more than 20 books, including What I Believe, published in November 2009. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009. Continue reading A Conversation With Tariq Ramadan
By webmaster, on May 31st, 2010
Tariq Ramadan La formule a fleuri à travers le monde après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 aux Etats-Unis. Face à l’horreur et à l’inacceptable, on cherchait des « musulmans modérés » capables de réagir, de se distancer et de critique… . . . → Read More: Qui sont les musulmans modérés ?
By webmaster, on May 22nd, 2010
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By webmaster, on May 22nd, 2010
Nilüfer Göle EHESS (Paris) It is not distance from but proximity to modern life that triggers a return to religious identity among migrant Muslims in Europe, says Nilüfer Göle. What we are witnessing today is a shift from a Muslim to an Islamist id… . . . → Read More: Islam, European public space, and civility
By webmaster, on May 21st, 2010
Asia Report N°190 12 May 2010, International Crisis Group EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS For nearly a decade, the Afghan military has been promoted as the cornerstone of counterinsurgency in the country. Billed as a rare success story in a conf… . . . → Read More: A Force in Fragments: Reconstituting the Afghan National Army
By webmaster, on May 21st, 2010
The International Institute For Strategic Studies As part of its effort to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, the United States is seeking to tighten sanctions on it. The US has tabled a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that… . . . → Read More: US presses ahead with Iran sanctions
By webmaster, on May 21st, 2010
Amy Belasco Specialist in U.S. Defense Policy and Budget CRS Report for Congress Summary With enactment of the FY2009 Supplemental (H.R. 2346/P.L. 111-32) on June 24, 2009, Congress has approved a total of about $944 billion for military operations, ba… . . . → Read More: The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
By webmaster, on May 21st, 2010
Al-Jama’a al-Islamiya and al-Jihad Amr Hamzawy, Sarah Grebowski Carnegie Paper, April 2010 Recognition by Egypt’s leading Jihadists that violence has failed to achieve political change and in fact has been counterproductive has led them to a re… . . . → Read More: From Violence to Moderation…
By webmaster, on May 21st, 2010
By Amnon Aran The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) Almost a decade ago, Saudi Arabia launched what came to be known as the Arab Peace Initiative (API), which was endorsed in the March 2002 Beirut Arab League Summit and has been reaffi… . . . → Read More: Between Palestine and Iran: Saudi Arabia and Middle East Peace
By webmaster, on May 21st, 2010
Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR); Stanford University – Department of Sociology Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) Abstract: Highly-educated individuals are over-represented among violent opera… . . . → Read More: The Dispossessed: A Labor-Market Analysis of Extreme Political Violence
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