Demilitarizing Muslim Politics

From Christian Democracy to Muslim Democracy?

I'm a Buddhist and My Friend is a Muslim.

Aceh was essentially a spectacular Muslim success story.

This Tweet from the Muslim community supports that thought

Of course, Muslim democracy will not be brought about by intellectuals alone.

Banning it, then, is to ban a symbol of Muslim power and existence

What exactly was the secret of the world s most populous Muslim majority nation?

Although optimistic at first, negotiations broke down after strong Muslim opposition.

Screen shot from the game Ibn Battuta that teaches facts about Muslim culture.

In my opinion, there are only five conceivable alternatives in a Muslim country.

Many Muslims still condemn the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kamal, because he tried to modernize his country.

But would Turkey be Muslim today without Ataturk?

Maritain s example disproves the claim that the analogy between Christian and Muslim democracy fails.

What we are witnessing today is a shift from a Muslim identity to an Islamist identity.

Jillian York covered the initial reactions from the Arab and Muslim blogosphere.

UNSETTLING SILENCE ON RENDING THE MUSLIM VEIL, makes ElTahawy acknowledge that

Above all, the successful modernization of a large Muslim country will make a decisive contribution to Europe s security.

In a Muslim country, such a strategy would, moreover, provide protection against hijacking of the law by religious fanatics.

Curiously, in Tehran, Iran, the choice is markedly in favor of Iranian, rather than Muslim, identity.

It is remarkable that some of the most critical concepts of Muslim religious terminology have now become part of the international language of current affairs.

By contrast, similar surveys in other Arab capitals find a decided tilt toward a Muslim identity.

Moreover, sizeable segments of the Muslim community are upwardly mobile in socioeconomic terms.

Feminists, including some women from Muslim backgrounds, have backed the ban, because they regard the custom as degrading.

As a result, Britain, France, and The Netherlands contain deeply entrenched subcultures of alienated, radicalized Muslim youth. But, while they and other radical Muslims around the world may hate Americans, it is hard to imagine a more Americanized, suburbanized immigrant subculture than Muslim immigrants in the US.

In Amman, Jordan, the most recent figure is 12 who put their national identity ahead of their Muslim identity.

As a result, Britain, France, and The Netherlands contain deeply entrenched subcultures of alienated, radicalized Muslim youth.

Today, a minaret can still be seen on one side of the Rotunda, preserved from the times when it was used as a mosque.

The hashtag FoxNewsFacts has been used over 400,000 times (according to Topsy), mostly to poke fun at the channel's anti Muslim inaccuracy.

Far beyond Koranic recitation, these men aspired to participate in the centuries long discussions among Muslim scholars about the proper ordering of Muslim life.

When guest workers from Morocco and Turkey became de facto immigrants, some began to champion the creation of an additional Muslim pillar.

Obama s administration will not start a war with a third Muslim country while the two others continue to burn.

Since independence, national politics in Malaysia has reinforced group identity, especially among ethnic Malays, an exclusively Muslim community.

Yet Hamas continues to reject territorial concessions, insisting that all of historic Palestine must be under Muslim jurisdiction.

The region s new map was based on the assumption that the fundamentals of Muslim Asia could be transformed by introducing the Western nation state system.

If we start this conversation in our Muslim republic, they will simply not understand us, to put it mildly , said the professor.

Rhetoric that treats Muslim Americans like hostile foreigners fundamentally and intentionally skews the story of New York and its Muslim community.

On the blog Musings of a Muslim Mouse, there is an open letter to Eltahawy, meant to represent real niqaabis around the world.

Indeed, there was no Muslim scholarship at the time, so to read meant to read whatever was available.

The secession of a Southern Sudanese Christian state from a Muslim country, a major member of the Arab League, would have far reaching strategic implications.

Here, perhaps, is the real clash of civilizations the emotional conflict between the European culture of fear and the Muslim, particularly Arab, culture of humiliation.

From defining themselves as anti colonialists and anti racists champions of multiculturalism amp 45 amp 45 they have become fervent defenders of so called Enlightenment values against Muslim orthodoxy.

The Bush administration can therefore enthusiastically back a return to civilian rule and claim a much needed victory for democracy in a Muslim country.

Saudi Arabia s rulers, as custodians of the Muslim faith s holiest places in Mecca and Medina, perhaps feel this threat most keenly.

Some Muslims, including clerics, maintain that covering women s faces is not actually a Muslim tradition.