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Interesting interview on BBC Hardtalk today ( available on BBC iPlayer in UK only).
Raheel Raza (born 1949-50 in Pakistan) is a Muslim Canadian journalist, author, public speaker, media consultant, anti-racism activist, and interfaith discussion leader. She lives in Toronto, Canada. She has been compared to Asra Nomani and Amina Wadud for her controversial views on Islam.
She is the author of Their Jihad, Not My Jihad: A Muslim Canadian Woman Speaks Out. She opposes Islamic terrorism and the oppression of Muslim women. As a result, she has received death threats.
Raheel's view is that muslims need to approach islam in a way consistent with the 21st century.
Islam is now 13 centuries old. After the same time span, Christianity had feached the stage of the Medici popes and the Inquisition.... so maybe another 500 years will see some change in the way muslims approach their faith?
An Egyptian activist who died Monday was beaten unconscious during interrogation at a security camp where he was detained for three days, two security sources told Reuters Tuesday.
The security...
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Mubarak Morsey - M&M - same/same. I think the first fellow was just more sophisticated at controlling the news media and what actually got out for public knowledge.
The Muslim Brotherhood have now been declared a terrorist organisation together with it's political wing the Freedom and Justice party. Does this mean that since they have nothing to lose they will...
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I'd think there are enough established terrorist organizations already in the area that they'd be happy to join up and send recruits to any organization that might want what they have to offer. Am...
So the MB call for an uprising against the Army, they revert to their normal tactics, violence reigns.
Don't be fooled by their rhetoric it's all bulls***.
They want to fight their own people and the...
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Lots of people say their charity is just propaganda - but where does the money come from (probably their own pockets) and don't they have a reputation amongst the poor for scrupulous honesty in...
... is the title of an extremely readable (and lengthy!) article in today's Guardian. As an analysis of many of the problems that are ongoing here, it's an excellent article, comparing the Tunisian...
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Biosceptic.You are mostly right.
For all my criticisms the article posted by LivinginLuxor is probably the best going. My comments were carping and I should have kept them to myself.
