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Islam
Muslims need an Alternative Political Paradigm

Muslims need an Alternative Political Paradigm

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The abuse of Islam and its teachings by radical groups like Daesh [ISIL] and Al Qaeda is a reality that no one can ignore

Feminism
Can Feminist Foreign Policy make us More Secure and our Societies more Just?

Can Feminist Foreign Policy make us More Secure and our Societies more Just?

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By Kristina Lunz, Nina Bernarding | – ( Heinrich Boll Stiftung) – Introduction: Kristina Lunz and Nina Bernarding, who are leading the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy in Germany explain why a peaceful world will remain an utopia without a feminist foreign policy. This article is part of our special on “Feminist Foreign Policy”. When […]

Bill of Rights
Landmark 1st Amendment Ruling striking down Texas Law Banning Israel Boycott won by CAIR

Landmark 1st Amendment Ruling striking down Texas Law Banning Israel Boycott won by CAIR

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By Arsalan Bukhari | – WASHINGTON, D.C. (CAIR News Release) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today welcomed this afternoon’s landmark victory in CAIR’s First Amendment lawsuit on behalf of Bahia Amawi, the Texas speech language pathologist who lost her job because she refused to […]

Archaeology
Medieval Crusaders in Levant Married, Recruited Locals, DNA shows

Medieval Crusaders in Levant Married, Recruited Locals, DNA shows

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In the pitt, three were Europeans, four were Near Easterners, and the two had European ancestry but with less West European markers.

Israel/ Palestine
Trump's Embrace of Netanyahu will Haunt the Middle East for Years

Trump’s Embrace of Netanyahu will Haunt the Middle East for Years

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The horrific conditions of Palestinian life will remain

Islamophobia
It’s Not Just that Mosque Shooter’s Islamophobia That Scares Me — It’s the Media’s

It’s Not Just that Mosque Shooter’s Islamophobia That Scares Me — It’s the Media’s

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By Domenica Ghanem | – (Institute for Policy Studies) – If we want to avoid another tragic day asking ourselves how this could happen, news organizations have to stop giving a platform to Islamophobic talking heads. When 50 people praying in a New Zealand mosque were gunned down and killed by a white supremacist, the […]

Islam
Spirituality without Prophets: Ibn Tufayl and the story of the feral child of philosophy

Spirituality without Prophets: Ibn Tufayl and the story of the feral child of philosophy

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Hayy concludes that persuading people away from their ‘natural’ stations would only corrupt them further.

Islam
Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment

Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment

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Some saw Islam as a pure form of monotheism close to philosophic Deism

Far Right
Israeli Justice Minister Campaigns on "Fascism" Perfume that "Smells like Democracy"

Israeli Justice Minister Campaigns on “Fascism” Perfume that “Smells like Democracy”

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