Copyright 2012 Center for Islamic Pluralism Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:21:57 -0500 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/1979/muslims-honor-birthday-of-muhammad-except-in-his Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST On January 24, the Islamic hijra month of Rabi Ul-Awwal began. During this month, traditional Muslims around the world will celebrate the birthday of Muhammad (peace be upon him). Milad An-Nabi (Birthday of the Prophet) will be an official holiday in http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1978/muslim-women-i-love-most Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST As an American Muslim, I am proud of the frontline role the organization I direct, the Center for Islamic Pluralism, has taken regarding women's issues in our faith community. The Center has produced numerous documents on the crime of female genital http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1977/bosnia-re-arrests-top-wahhabi-plotter-after-us Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST On Wednesday, January 25, a team of 150 officers from the State Investigation and Protection Agency of Bosnia-Herzegovina (SIPA) arrested Nusret Imamović, leader of the main Wahhabi Islamist cell in the country, and his brother Eldin Imamović. The pair http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1976/middle-east-conference-against-female-genital Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST On January 19, the first conference on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East opened in Beirut, Lebanon. The event was called by two non-governmental organizations, the Dutch-based Humanist Institute for Cooperation (HIVOS) and WADI, the http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1973/turkish-women-victims-of-permitted-rape Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST At the beginning of the New Year, as reported in the daily newspaper Haber Türk (Turkish News) of January 6, 2012, E.D., a 25-year old man in the northwestern Turkish city of Bolu, took his 11-year old "wife," Z.Ç., to the hospital because she suffered http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1972/a-second-spring-in-the-far-east Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST The promise of democratization in the 2010-2011 "Arab Spring" has nearly vanished in the aftermath of Muslim Brotherhood and Wahhabi electoral victories in North Africa, continued grinding atrocities in Syria, Saudi Arabian and Gulf Cooperation Council http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1971/bosnian-cultural-heritage-under-peacetime-threat Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Destruction of libraries and museums was one of many potent symbols of Serbian aggression against the newly-independent Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, during the 1992-95 war that left the country partitioned. Abundant acts of evil were perpetrated in http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1970/kosovar-albanian-arrested-in-tampa-terror-scheme Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST While Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and other Balkan countries have been plagued by radical Islamist incursions, Albanian prime minister Sali Berisha, who is Muslim, told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth at the end of November that he considers http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1969/turkey-leaps-toward-islamist-dictatorship Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Turkey's so-called Justice and Development Party (known by its Turkish initials as AKP) first won a national election in 2002 – a victory repeated in 2007 and 2011. Since its second triumph at the polls, it and its principal figure, current prime http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1968/egyptian-islamists-demand-morals-patrols Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST The radical Islamist Nour party, or "Party of the Light," has captured more than a quarter of votes in the post-Mubarak Egyptian elections. Nour, which ran second to the Muslim Brotherhood in the polling, is a Wahhabi party, reproducing the ideology of http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1967/encounters-with-civilizations Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Agnes Ganxhë Bojaxhiu first became known to the world as Mother Teresa. She was born in 1912 of Albanian Catholic parents in Shkupi (Skopje), then a major city, called Üsküb in Turkish, in the Ottoman district of Kosova, and now the capital of http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1966/prayers-for-2012-and-reflections-on-2011 Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST It is customary for columnists to conclude the common year with reflections on that which has just finished and predictions for that which is to come. I make no pretensions to prophecy, aside from occasional analysis based on news reports. I am, however, http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1965/saudi-king-reform-step-vs-crown-prince-ambitious Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST The Saudi Arabian monarchy is now led by two counterposed figures: the reforming King Abdullah and the fanatical Wahhabi crown prince Nayef. Recent incidents in the kingdom, although at first glance minor, may indicate the approach of a significant http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1964/world-teeters-as-past-mistakes-repeated Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST As 2011 ends it might well be remembered as "annus horribilis" or the horrible year. The March tsunami that overwhelmed Japan demonstrated nature's immense power to dwarf or drown all human efforts to build stronger, better and safer methods of a http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1962/kazakhstan-global-tumult-enters-critical-central Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST December 2011 marked two momentous anniversaries. The suicide by burning of Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, occurred on December 17, 2010, one year ago. The dissolution of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics took place on December