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Why do Muslims look to religion to address political issues?
Dalia Mogahed Dalia Mogahed

One of the foremost experts on what he refers to as Islamic democracy, Noah Feldman, explains in his book "After Jihad: America and the struggle for Islamic Democracy" how the Western paradigm has focused on two diametrically opposed models of government, each tracing its ...
Promoting peace one T-shirt at a time
Kristin Erekson

Two Buckingham Browne & Nichols students – one Jewish and one Muslim – have joined forces to promote a cause that they hope will help bridge the divide between Israelis and Palestinians.

Cambridge resident ...
Immigration across the Atlantic Ocean
Maroof Ahmed Maroof Ahmed

Across the Atlantic Ocean in the Kingdom of Morocco, a crisis of emigration is taking place. The idea of immigration to Europe is engrained deeply into the culture of Moroccan society. The country’s ...
Kidnapping "Fatah" and "Islam"
Hazem Saghieh Hazem Saghieh

Many have noticed that Fatah al-Islam kidnaps "Fatah" Movement and, therefore, the Palestinian cause and its heritage, and, at the same time, kidnaps Islam. However, as long as language has a meaning, it is not ...
“Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol”
Hussein Al-alak

Whilst Christians, Sunni and Shi'ite in Iraq face the persecution of British foreign policy and Palestinians look back over the past forty years as refugees, the UK Department for Education has now declared ...
Should North Africa brace for more terror attacks?
Arezki Daoud Arezki Daoud

From the Salafist Group of Preaching and Combat in Algeria, the Salafiya Jihadia in Morocco, the Islamic Combatant Group in Libya, to the Islamic Jihadist Group in Tunisia, one can see the beginning of the formation ...