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15. Hunger for authority is behind the irritation of the (wanna be) Islamists
Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2005
Fundamentalists are the most eager sectors for power and authority. They target weak people and try to convince them that they are promoting real Islam and genuine faith. But they are in fact terrorists that promote what Islam forbade, like murder and destruction under the pretext that society is...
3. Will the US invasion of Iraq cause the growth of fundamentalism? Arab Iraqis, the first fundamentalist phenomenon after the fall of Baghdad
Date of source: Wednesday, April 30, 2003
The author asks whether extremist Islamic fundamentalist movements, which believe in jihad and martyrdom as ways of combating occupation, will grow with the US invasion of Iraq. The author also discusses the relation between the US and Islamic countries after the war. See Also: Art. 13: an article...
2. Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid…An emigrant intellect
Date of source: Friday, February 20, 2004
During the celebration of his appointment to a full professorship at the University of Leiden, the president of the university delivered a speech in which he described (Dr.) Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid as the silent intellect. However, “there is a historical moment when the intellect breaks his silence and...
10. Terrorism and the fanatic way of thinking
Date of source: Saturday, March 19, 2005
Islamic fundamentalism in the sense of being a dogma can be summarized in: the world is divided into nations of Islam and nations of war, the world is either jahīlīya [pre-Islam] or hākimīya [the application of the sharī‘a and strict observance of God’s commands]. Armed jihād is a must to establish...
10. Addendum to the USCIRF report of May 1
Date of source: Monday, May 14, 2001
The report notices "some recent positive developments in the promotion of religious freedom." The areas of church building and preparing new history textbooks for public school children are explicitly mentioned. However, the Commission finds that serious problems of discrimination against a number...
3. There is no religious government in Islam, and whoever calls for the restoration of the Khilafa [Caliphate] is crazy
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 1999
Khilafa [the rule of a caliph, a successor of Mohammed who holds both worldly and religious responsibilities], the republic, monarchy; these are different forms of government systems. Which of them represents the Islamic system? Dr. Mohammed Selim Al-Awa, the Islamic thinker, expresses his...
1. Preaching about Hell
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 1999 to Friday, March 26, 1999
Islam is a religion for this world. It is a heavenly constitution ensuring true justice for all people, man’s good and virtue, freedom, equality, tolerance. It is a religion of principle and faith, a religion of easiness, not hardship. But preachers of Islam emerged claiming that their duty and...

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