Representatives say Israeli government’s use of “disproportionate force” has “revived extremist groups”. Anger within Britain’s Muslim communities over the Gaza conflict has reached “acute levels of intensity” that could have repercussions for national security, leading Muslims will warn Gordon Brown today. In a letter to the prime minister, representatives of Muslim organizations will say the…
Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble With Islam Today (2004) and director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University, calls for ijtihad in this commentary. Manji claims that an important response to the Gaza crisis is for Muslims to call into question their tradition understandings of the Qur’an and to foster debate. Manji…
The two men accused in the high-profile death of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez appeared in a Brampton court yesterday as a preliminary hearing began in a case previously described as an alleged honour killing. Ms. Parvez was found strangled in her family’s home on Dec. 10, 2007. Friends have claimed Ms. Parvez had been at odds…
Justice Minister Rachida Dati has turned heads in Paris, having moved out of the maternity ward and into a Cabinet meeting five days after giving birth at age 43. While Dati has wide public support, she has largely fallen out of favor with magistrates, lawyers, and President Nicholas Sarkozy, who many claim propelled the daughter…
35-year old Fatima Elatik was appointed leader of Amsterdam’s district council of Zeeberg, and is the first political administrator to wear a headscarf at her job. Elatik, born in Amsterdam, of a Moroccan family background, is a member of the Labor party. Elatik however, has stated that she does not wanted to be identified as…
