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Read today’s post: In response to last night’s shocking BBC Panorama by Dr Salman Butt Read the ground-breaking report that shows that Extremism does NOT cause terrorism: A Decade Lost Reactions to Charlie Hebdo Freedom of speech is an ideological construct by Afia Ahmed Chaudhry ...

Shaikh Haitham al-Haddad: “My initial response to the #CharlieHebdo matter” “Allāh and His angels send blessings on the Prophet: O you who believe! Send your blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.”[1] Alḥāmdulillāh, today is the auspicious day ...

Reactions to Charlie Hebdo The Charlie Hebdo shootings have provoked a storm of sensationalist reactions from opportunists across the spectrum. At Islam21c we have been working hard to sift through the rhetoric and find reasoned analysis from all quarters – ...

At this point, the justified expressions of outrage and the paeans to the dead have long surpassed the need for duplication. What remains is to ask, with the cold clarity of an observer looking down from a great height: Who ...

A video published on January 31st 2014. The points made within it are extremely important and relevant to the Charlie Hebdo episode in the context of freedom of speech. Reactions to Charlie Hebdo The Charlie Hebdo shootings have provoked a ...

  by Rabbi Michael Lerner As the editor of a progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine that has often articulated views that have prompted condemnation from both Right and Left, I had good reason to be scared by the murders of ...

In the aftermath of the events in Paris, with perpetrators still on the run, the West’s press and politicians have set a narrative across the world – that the journalists at Charlie Hebdo were killed as part of a war ...

The Charlie Hebdo killers want to provoke anti-Islam sentiment among the public, just as Anders Breivik did. But France must resist. Three and a half years ago, the far-right Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik bombed Oslo, and then gunned down dozens ...

What do you say when you have nothing to say? That is the dilemma suddenly thrust on political leaders and editorialists in France since three masked gunmen entered the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and massacred a dozen ...

By Asghar Bukhari White people don’t like to admit it, but those cartoons upheld their prejudice, their racism, their political supremacy, and cut it how you will — images like that upheld a political order built on discrimination. In less than an ...