Copyright 2013 Center for Islamic Pluralism Sun, 19 May 2013 20:40:47 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Center for Islamic Pluralism :: Writings http://www.islamicpluralism.org webmaster@islamicpluralism.org (Center for Islamic Pluralism) webmaster@islamicpluralism.org en-us http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2236/an-appeal-to-international-organisations-against Wed, 15 May 2013 09:00:00 EST The following statement was released today, May 15, in connection with the Hudson Institute seminar, "Islamist Repression of Sufis and Other Religious Minorities," held in Washington, DC. Information on the seminar is available here. Further signatures http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2237/the-real-erdogan Mon, 13 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, born on February 26, 1954, comes from a shabby Istanbul waterfront neighborhood where children grew up between rusting ships and old tires. He sold snacks on the street as a youth, to help his family. He called himself "the black http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2235/britain-feckless-two-faced-approach-to-radical Wed, 8 May 2013 09:00:00 EST If the U.S. authorities are beset by questions about their capacity for the prevention – or lack thereof – of Islamist terrorism, similar questions need to be asked about the response to terror conspiracies in Britain. In the U.S., the debate is fed by http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2234/cip-executive-director-endorses-denial-of-islamic Tue, 7 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Imam Talal Eid of the Islamic Institute of Boston, a former member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, has refused to provide Muslim burial services for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year old individual from a Caucasian Muslim family http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2230/europe-the-struggle-for-supremacy-from-1453-to Mon, 6 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Early in this book, author Brendan Simms, professor of history at Cambridge, quotes John Locke: "How fond soever I am of peace I think truth ought to accompany it, which cannot be preserved without Liberty. Nor that without the Balance of Europe kept up http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2233/iran-continues-crackdown-on-sufis Wed, 1 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Iran continues to arrest Sufi mystics. The victims of state suppression represent the Gonabadi-Nimatullahi order, the main body of traditional metaphysical Muslims in the country. On April 20, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, a webmaster for the http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2232/radical-islamist-ideology-dominates-sunni-islam Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST [Stephen Suleyman Schwartz is the Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington. We Interviewed him for El Diario Exterior to obtain his opinion on the origin, nature, and possible consequences of the attacks in Boston.] Passivity http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2226/the-boston-horrors-and-wahhabism-in-chechnya Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed during the Boston rampage last week, and his surviving brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who is charged by federal authorities in the series of abominable crimes, are doubtless the first Chechens many Americans will ever have http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2225/shariah-councils-in-britain-are-archaic Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST A leading Muslim spokesman has denounced Britain's proliferating shariah councils in the wake of a BBC Panorama documentary broadcast 22 April. Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, founding Trustee of the Muslim Institute, who champions women's causes including http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2224/the-boston-atrocities-chechens-wahhabism Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Preliminary news reports state that the YouTube account of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, and subsequent violent rampage, includes a Wahhabi fundamentalist video denouncing Sufism, the http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2221/resistance-to-islamist-infiltration-continues-in Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Away from the eyes of the world, ideological Islamists pursue infiltration of the moderate Muslim communities in Kosova and Albania. But in nearly all cases, they continue to be rejected. Secular, avidly pro-American Kosova, remains a major target. The http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2220/the-islamic-community-organizations-of-macedonia Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Stephen Schwartz, or Suleyman Schwartz, as he is called by Muslims since he accepted Islam in Bosnia during the 1990s, is the executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, an organization that advocates tolerance and coexistence between the http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2219/remembering-senad-micijevic Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST We should weep for the caring lovers, because the death of truth should be mourned. In the years when the friendship and fascination of certain officials of the Islamic Community of Bosnia-Hercegovina for petrodollars greatly aided the spread of Wahhabi http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2215/what-is-really-broken-in-syria Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST Among the many noteworthy aspects of President Barack Obama's recent tour of the Middle East was a comment on Friday, March 22, during a press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah II. Obama said, "Something has been broken in Syria, and it's not going http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2214/rahmetli-senad-micijevic-1960-2013 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST Senad Mičijević, an outstanding representative of Bosnian Sufism, died aged 52 on 21 March 2013, after a long illness, in Mostar, Hercegovina. He was a Sufi devotee, author and historian. His books mostly concerned the cultural and spiritual heritage of