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The first question that comes to mind after the London explosions is: what took them so long? The answer may be that in the past four years the British authorities have succeeded in preventing attacks on a number of occasions.
“We have fulfilled our promise and carried out our blessed military raid in Britain after our mujāhidīn exerted strenuous efforts over a long period of time to ensure the success of the raid.” [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4660391.stm] With these words an Islamist group, purporting to be al-Qā‘ida...
The author notes that while reactions to the Danish cartoons have gotten out of hand, the main force behind those reactions was not religious, but politically-motivated groups. He calls on Muslimsnot to blame all Westerners for the cartoons, and for Westerners in kind to not blame all Muslims for...
There is no indication on the ground that Turkey represents a bridge, since its relations with the Muslim world, namely its neighbors Iran, Iraq and Syria, are still at a low level, and moreover, Turkey plays a marginal role in the current Islamic culture and literature.
Egyptian scholar Nabil ‘Abdel Fatah reports on a negative role media can play in intercultural polarization. Amir Taheri reports about the incompatibility between Islam and democracy.
As an Iranian now living in a liberal democracy, I would like to explain why Islam and democracy are essentially incompatible. Democracy is based on one fundamental principle: equality. The idea of equality is unacceptable to Islam. For the non-believer cannot be the equal of the believer. Even...

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