Posts Tagged: Moderate Islam
Reform in Saudi Arabia: The Road Not Taken
Saudi Sheikh Salman Awdah, a popular but controversial religious scholar who has been mostly in solitary confinement since 2017, appeared in court recently only to...
Study: Jordanian Textbooks Have Greatly Improved in Promoting Moderate Islam, Tolerance, but Still Reject Israel
A new study has revealed that Jordanian textbooks have greatly liberalized in promoting moderate Islam and tolerance, but still reject Israel and its right to...
The Boston Islamic Seminary Is Training the Next Generation of Extremists
New research by the Middle East Forum has uncovered evidence of extreme antisemitism among faculty members and guest speakers appointed by the Islamic Society of Boston...
How to Defeat Islamo-Nihilism
The Islamic State will ultimately collapse. Indeed, it was doomed from the start, because it could not offer real hope to the populations under its...
Why We Must Promote Islamic Reform
Centuries ago, there were followers of Judaism and Christianity -- specifically zealots and crusaders -- who supported or committed violence and conquest in the name of religion. Nowadays, however,...
Is Extremism Fundamental to All Religions?
There are more and more books and articles apologizing for religion, claiming that it is all really peaceful and positive; that only a few adherents are...
What Antidote to Radical Islam?
"Radical Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution," has been my watchword since 2002, meaning that Islam's many problems will be solved...
Stop Connecting Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism With Islamophobia
Many practitioners of Islam reject Jewish sovereignty and consider Jews (and Christians) to be dhimmis - treated as second-class citizens. Arabism or Arab nationalism...
Where is the Muslim Outrage at IS?
Imagine this scenario: a new militant Jewish group, The New Sadducee State (NSS), rejects the Torah's Oral Tradition, and wants to return the entire world to the literal...
The Trajectory of Islam
Andrew C. McCarthy and I are allies over the long term, fighting the Islamist scourge in the same trench for two decades. But alliance does...
Egypt’s General Sisi Calls for Rise of ‘Modern’ Islam
According to Egyptian media, during his recent speech at the Department of Moral Affairs for the Armed Forces, General Abdul Fateh al-Sisi - the man who...
Arab Spring — Where to?
The following interlinked assumptions are divorced from reality: the rising tide of the Islamist forces on the Arab Street is led by politically pragmatic and...
Defining ‘Mildly Islamist’
I came across a vexing phrase while reading The Economist this week. In an article about political skullduggery in Turkey, the ruling Justice and...
