Women’s rights in Islam: Fighting for equality before the law
By Deutsche Welle via Egypt Independent – In countries that practice Islamic law, legal reforms to advance the status of women tend to fail due to hard-liners who see it undermining [...]
Islamic Reform? Top Muslim University Says ‘No’
By Raymond Ibrahim – American Thinker – Largely unknown to and unreported in the West, a large, two-day conference was recently hosted (Jan. 27–28) by Al Azhar University in Egypt and [...]
The Muslim World’s Inferiority Complex
By Raymond Ibrahim – American Thinker Muslims around the world are thrilled at the recent news: “Harvard University ranks the Koran as the best book on justice” is the January [...]
Interfaith dialogue – a painstaking process
By Claudia Mende – Qantara.de – The declared goal of the Abrahamic Teams is to improve how Jews, Christians and Muslims interact with and live alongside each other. The project, which [...]
Islamic Apologias: Straining at Gnats while Swallowing Camels
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for CS – An Arabic-language video recently appeared of a Muslim cleric in Egypt addressing how terrorists misuse Islamic scriptures to justifying killing [...]
Egypt’s Grand Mufti Lionizes Saudi King and Son for Service to Islam
Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia – As this article demonstrates, Muslim religious establishments and institutions are and have been subservient to Muslim ruling [...]
Medieval Christians Distorted Koran to Prevent Islam from Spreading to Europe?
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity While discussing the history of the Quran in Europe during a televised interview on the Arabic-language program, “Allah Knows,” Dr. Ali Gom‘a, [...]
Cairo University President Mohamed Al-Khosht: Reform Of Religious Discourse Is Not Enough, We Need To Revive Religion Itself
By MEMRI – President of Cairo University Mohamed Al-Khosht called for a “completely new religious discourse,” saying that “reformed discourse” was not enough and [...]
Islam vs. Non-Muslims: Doctrinal Sources
By Raymond Ibrahim -MEF– Because Islam gets criticized for many things — from hostility to modernity and democracy to calls for theocratic rule, radical “patriarchy,” misogyny, [...]
Rift widens between Egyptian president, Al-Azhar
By Shahira Amin – Al Monitor – When Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then defense minister, gave a televised speech on July 3, 2013, announcing that President Mohammed Morsi had [...]
