There is a self-inflicted tragedy in the Muslim response to Charlie Hebdo. In the discussions of Charlie Hebdo and the events surrounding it, one divide between the west and Islam was clear. While the cultural west (those who identify culturally…
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WASHINGTON — The younger of the two brothers who killed 12 people in Paris last week most likely used his older brother’s passport in 2011 to travel to Yemen, where he received training and US$20,000 (S$26,600) from Al Qaeda’s affiliate…
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The level of freedom of expression in the early centuries of Islam would put much of the current Muslim world to shame. After the brutal assassination of two visitors and eight of its staff members, the French satirical magazine Charlie…
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The Moroccan-born mayor of Rotterdam has said Muslim immigrants who do not appreciate the way of life in Western civilisations can ‘f*** off’. Ahmed Aboutaleb, who arrived in the Netherlands aged 15, spoke out in the wake of the Charlie…
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In an essay published October 3, 2014 in the French newspaper Marianne, French Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar, author of Self Islam: A Personal History of Islam (Seuil, 2006); Islam without Submission: Muslim Existentialism (Albin Michel, 2008), and A History of Humanism in the West (Armand Colin, 2014),…
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