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Russia: Book On 'Love And Sex In Islam' Causing Controversy, But Scholars Say Topic Is Nothing Unusual

Posted on December 5th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY

Russia’s Ansar publishing house recently released a book titled “Love And Sex In Islam.” The collection of articles and fatwas — decrees issued by Islamic scholars — was first presented at a book fair in Moscow last summer and immediately became a best-seller. Russia’s muftiyat — or board on Islamic affairs — has criticized the book, which is being sold at most mosques with the word “sex” on its cover hidden.

Russia: Book On ‘Love And Sex In Islam’ Causing Controversy, But Scholars Say Topic Is Nothing Unusual

Posted on December 5th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY

Russia’s Ansar publishing house recently released a book titled “Love And Sex In Islam.” The collection of articles and fatwas — decrees issued by Islamic scholars — was first presented at a book fair in Moscow last summer and immediately became a best-seller. Russia’s muftiyat — or board on Islamic affairs — has criticized the book, which is being sold at most mosques with the word “sex” on its cover hidden.

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De islam verkrampt van de pijn – Hafida Ashrawi

Posted on November 26th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Liberales.be – De islam verkrampt van de pijn – Hafida Ashrawi

De islam is ziek: hij bevat zo veel etterende wonden die gezuiverd dienen te worden vooraleer hij kan genezen. Die etterende wonden zijn het onrecht dat vrouwen wordt aangedaan. Tarik Fraihi wordt te pas te onpas opgevoerd als een ï¿½denker met moslimrootsï¿½. Zoals zo vele moslims schittert ook hij in het minimaliseren en ontkennen van de problemen van moslimvrouwen en -meisjes. Sterker nog, de fout ligt niet bij de moslims maar bij de autochtonen die alleen horen wat ze willen horen en zien wat ze willen zien.

'Angst blokkeert onze toekomst'

Posted on November 25th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

Maroc.NL – ‘Angst blokkeert onze toekomst’

Tarik Fraihi door Koen Vidal

‘Vrouwenbesnijdenissen en gedwongen huwelijken zijn ontoelaatbaar. Lul daar niet over. Maak een wet en verbied ze”Ik verzeker u dat 99 procent van de Belgische moslimgemeenschap ook tegen de boerka is. Waarover moeten we dan nog discussiï¿½ren?’

Na de moord op Theo van Gogh begrijpt filosoof-auteur-activist Tarik Fraihi nog minder dan voordien waarom geweld en waanbeelden het integratiebeleid gijzelen. ‘Eerst wachten we tot de etter uit de maatschappij drupt en dan schieten we in paniek. Als we van de botsing der beschavingen het vertrekpunt van ons denken maken, zullen we nooit tot een dialoog en ook nooit tot oplossingen komen.’

‘Angst blokkeert onze toekomst’

Posted on November 25th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Maroc.NL – ‘Angst blokkeert onze toekomst’

Tarik Fraihi door Koen Vidal

‘Vrouwenbesnijdenissen en gedwongen huwelijken zijn ontoelaatbaar. Lul daar niet over. Maak een wet en verbied ze”Ik verzeker u dat 99 procent van de Belgische moslimgemeenschap ook tegen de boerka is. Waarover moeten we dan nog discussiï¿½ren?’

Na de moord op Theo van Gogh begrijpt filosoof-auteur-activist Tarik Fraihi nog minder dan voordien waarom geweld en waanbeelden het integratiebeleid gijzelen. ‘Eerst wachten we tot de etter uit de maatschappij drupt en dan schieten we in paniek. Als we van de botsing der beschavingen het vertrekpunt van ons denken maken, zullen we nooit tot een dialoog en ook nooit tot oplossingen komen.’

ï¿½My Islamï¿½ on the Internet

Posted on November 25th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

IslamOnline – Art & Entertainment Section

By Tarek. A Ghanem
As a medium, the Internet, with its setting and structure, seems to favor modernist Islam. For the Internet, with its basic notion of unlimited access to all, provides equal footing for the qualified and the commoner alike. There is now the boundless and self-perpetuating electronic space where everyone is free to publish their interpretation and judgment. The Qurï¿½an and the Sunnah are being discussed on popular forums, unlike the in the 7th century, for example, when the discussion of such topics was confined to ï¿½qualifiedï¿½ and specialized scholars. Oversimplification and then absolutization seem to be the order of the day. This has led to what Hofheinz has termed ï¿½My Islamï¿½: a lingo spread on discussion forums and personal web sites wherein generalizations and statements like ï¿½the Islam I knowï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½Islam as everyone knows isï¿½ are familiar; hence, ï¿½My Islamï¿½.

Letter to Osama Bin Laden

Posted on November 23rd, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

ReligionResearch Islam Blog

Dr. Sarah Badran wrote a letter to Osama Bin Laden: ” There is among people one whose words about this world’s life may please you greatly and who calls on God to witness what is in his heart; yet such a one is most stubborn in dispute. And when he turns his back, he goes about the earth, spreading corruption and destroying tillage and progeny, and God does not love corruption. (Quran 2:204-205)”

Don’t know if he listens…
(more…)

Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Islam becoming weekend affair, The Milli Gazette, Vol.5 No.15, MG109 (1-15 Aug 04)
Religion, for most of the baby-boomers, my contemporaries, has become a weekend thing, where offering Friday prayers means absolution from everything that is required of a Muslim. One only needs to drive around town on a Friday to find traffic jams on the streets housing the fashionable, mostly air-conditioned mosques, yet the same mosques witness fewer, if any, visitors during morning prayers.

Study: Ramadan practices changing

Posted on November 19th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

CULTURE DIGEST: Target stores reject Salvation Army kettles; Spiritual collegians have better emotional health; More teens having plastic surgery; Study: Ramadan practices changing – (BP)

“The new Ramadan has changed our customs beyond recognition,” he wrote. “What has become of neighbors exchanging plates before iftar? What has become of the people in a neighborhood coming together for talk and discussion after taraweeh prayers? Couldn’t we bring back some of these customs in place of an hour or two of satellite TV? Wouldn’t we all be richer if we did?”

Gun moslima’s eigen sexualiteit – Naema Tahir

Posted on November 19th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Liberales.be – Gun moslima’s eigen sexualiteit – Naema Tahir

ï¿½Moslims doen niet aan seksï¿½, sprak een van mijn opvoeders, ï¿½wij krijgen onze kinderen van Allah.ï¿½ Op mijn dertiende wist ik niet wat seks was, maar deze ï¿½wijzeï¿½ woorden stelden me wel gerust. Ze bevestigden wat ik al vermoedde, namelijk dat moslims en koninklijke families niet aan seks deden. Deze mensen waren immers heilig, en seks was vies, iets voor de minder verheven westerlingen.

Gun moslima's eigen sexualiteit – Naema Tahir

Posted on November 19th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

Liberales.be – Gun moslima’s eigen sexualiteit – Naema Tahir

ï¿½Moslims doen niet aan seksï¿½, sprak een van mijn opvoeders, ï¿½wij krijgen onze kinderen van Allah.ï¿½ Op mijn dertiende wist ik niet wat seks was, maar deze ï¿½wijzeï¿½ woorden stelden me wel gerust. Ze bevestigden wat ik al vermoedde, namelijk dat moslims en koninklijke families niet aan seks deden. Deze mensen waren immers heilig, en seks was vies, iets voor de minder verheven westerlingen.

STANDING UP FOR ISLAM: Muslim comics

Posted on November 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

STANDING UP FOR ISLAM: Muslim comics, like many blacks and Jews before them, are creating humor born of despair

“I’m an American,” he boomed inside a Chicago comedy club on a recent night. “But I’m an American Muslim, and, in fact, I consider myself a very patriotic American Muslim, which means I would die for this country …”

He pauses for a second and lowers his voice.

“… by blowing myself up.”

Black, Muslim and Gay

Posted on November 14th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Black, Muslim and Gay

In a documentary for BBC Radio Four, Black, Muslim and Gay, three people describe their struggle with identity, faith and family. Islamic scholars say their faith forbids homosexuality, although approaches widely differ in how to address it.

Manifest tegen homo’s komt op moslimsite

Posted on November 8th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

de Volkskrant – Manifest tegen homo’s komt op moslimsite

De redactieleden van de Marokkaanse jongerensite www.elqalem.nl hadden vandaag met hun antihomomanifest naar buiten willen komen. Maar vanwege het gespannen klimaat na de moord op Theo van Gogh, hebben ze publicatie even uitgesteld.

Manifest tegen homo's komt op moslimsite

Posted on November 8th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

de Volkskrant – Manifest tegen homo’s komt op moslimsite

De redactieleden van de Marokkaanse jongerensite www.elqalem.nl hadden vandaag met hun antihomomanifest naar buiten willen komen. Maar vanwege het gespannen klimaat na de moord op Theo van Gogh, hebben ze publicatie even uitgesteld.

Ik neem aan dat je het in onze naam deed? Voor God en Vaderland, voor Allah en de trots van de rest van Marokkaans Nederland.

Posted on November 2nd, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

“Ik neem aan dat je het in onze naam deed? Voor God en Vaderland, voor Allah en de trots van de rest van Marokkaans Nederland.”

UPDATE:
Mijn excuses, de link naar Maroc.nl ontbrak aanvankelijk. Dit is ‘m:
http://www.maroc.nl/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115466

Posted on October 21st, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Religion News Blog : Challenging the Quran

“In a note of encouragement to his fellow hijackers, September 11 ringleader Muhammad Atta cheered their impending ï¿½marriage in Paradiseï¿½ to the 72 wide-eyed virgins the Qurï¿½an promises to the departed faithful. Palestinian newspapers have been known to describe the death of a suicide bomber as a ï¿½wedding to the black-eyed in eternal Paradise.ï¿½ But if a German expert on Middle Eastern languages is correct, these hopes of sexual reward in the afterlife are based on a terrible misunderstanding.

Arguing that today’s version of the Qurï¿½an has been mistranscribed from the original text, scholar Christoph Luxenberg says that what are described as ï¿½hourisï¿½ with ï¿½swelling breastsï¿½ refer to nothing more than ï¿½white raisinsï¿½ and ï¿½juicy fruits.ï¿½”

Fresh hope for Islam's 'suffragettes'

Posted on October 18th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

Scotland on Sunday – Top Stories – Fresh hope for Islam’s ‘suffragettes’

“WHILE universal suffrage has been the norm in the West for decades, in the Middle East it remains a flashpoint between modernisers and Islamic fundamentalists. “

Fresh hope for Islam’s ‘suffragettes’

Posted on October 18th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Scotland on Sunday – Top Stories – Fresh hope for Islam’s ‘suffragettes’

“WHILE universal suffrage has been the norm in the West for decades, in the Middle East it remains a flashpoint between modernisers and Islamic fundamentalists. “

Yearning For A Peaceful Ramadan

Posted on October 15th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

alt.muslim – your muslim news community

Today, we live in a world where the news always has something related to Islam and the Muslim world. We’re bombarded with it. Everyone in the world is talking about you, and most of the time not knowing what they’re talking about. I don’t explain Ramadan anymore; people just know, and they give you a nod when they find out you’re fasting that could alternatively mean, “Interesting, I’ve heard about that,” or a more worried “Oh, so you’re a practicing Muslim.” If I talk about Ramadan to people, the subject quickly shifts to current events, because these days one cannot talk about being a Muslim without talking about terror, extremism, and the like. Topics that aren’t very conducive to spiritual harmony.

Tawhid and Jihad

Posted on October 15th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

The Harvard Crimson Online :: Opinion

Opinion article that highlights concepts concerning tawheed and jihad.

“I felt that sinking feeling in my stomach when I read the news of Bigleyï¿½s death. I was terribly sadï¿½and I was angry. I was angry at the United States for wreaking enough havoc in Iraq to cause already-mad men to be provoked into mad acts of murder. But mostly, I was angry at the killers. First and foremost because they killed an innocent man. But also because the killers are Muslim, and Iï¿½m Muslim. And by committing their heinous act they fueled the belief that my religion, Islam, somehow encourages or condones such acts.”

Muslims Log On to a Cyber Congregation

Posted on October 15th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

ABC News: Muslims Log On to a Cyber Congregation

“Oct. 15, 2004 ï¿½ Oct. 15, 2004 – From desert camps, hillsides, rooftops, mosques and minarets, the call for the evening prayer during the holy month of Ramadan has drawn Muslims across the world to worship for nearly 1,400 years.

As the first cries of the taraweeh — or special Ramadan prayers — are heard through a raised voice, a bullhorn, or nowadays a rigged-up amplifier, life in villages, towns, cities, and in some cases entire nations, comes to a standstill as the faithful heed the summons in communal displays of faith.

But if many Ramadan rituals have gone unchanged through the centuries, the times are catching up with the world’s fastest-growing religion.

In the next few weeks, millions of Muslims will simply log on to their computers and with the click of a mouse, tune into a live or downloaded broadcast of the taraweeh prayers from the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. “

The problem within Islam

Posted on October 11th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

roanoke.com – Commentary Stories -The problem within Islam

“The history of Islam is one of a struggle between the extreme fundamentalists who claim to hold a monopoly of truth, and who use violence and terrorism to impose their views on fellow Muslims, and mainstream Islam who professes an entirely different vision of the ethical, the moral and the religious.”

Reactions to Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi's Fatwa Calling for the Abduction and Killing of American Civilians in Iraq

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

MEMRI: Latest News

“At a convention on the subject of “Pluralism in Islam” which took place in late August, 2004 at the Egyptian Journalists’ Union in Cairo, Sheikh Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and one of the most important religious authorities in Islamist circles, issued a religious legal opinion permitting the abduction and killing of American civilians in Iraq in order to pressure the American army to evacuate its forces. Al-Qaradhawi stressed the fact that in his view, “all of the Americans in Iraq are combatants, there is no difference between civilians and soldiers, and one should fight them, since the American civilians came to Iraq in order to serve the occupation. The abduction and killing of Americans in Iraq is a [religious] obligation so as to cause them to leave Iraq immediately. The mutilation of corpses [however] is forbidden in Islam.”

Reactions to Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi’s Fatwa Calling for the Abduction and Killing of American Civilians in Iraq

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

MEMRI: Latest News

“At a convention on the subject of “Pluralism in Islam” which took place in late August, 2004 at the Egyptian Journalists’ Union in Cairo, Sheikh Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and one of the most important religious authorities in Islamist circles, issued a religious legal opinion permitting the abduction and killing of American civilians in Iraq in order to pressure the American army to evacuate its forces. Al-Qaradhawi stressed the fact that in his view, “all of the Americans in Iraq are combatants, there is no difference between civilians and soldiers, and one should fight them, since the American civilians came to Iraq in order to serve the occupation. The abduction and killing of Americans in Iraq is a [religious] obligation so as to cause them to leave Iraq immediately. The mutilation of corpses [however] is forbidden in Islam.”

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