Curriculum initiative by British Muslims

On the initiative of the Islamic scholar Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, British Muslims have introduced an “anti-terror curriculum” designed to supply Muslim clerics with arguments against the misuse of theological arguments by terrorist organisations such as IS. By Stefan Weidner In principle, one can only welcome the fact that Muslims’ reactions to the terrorist misinterpretation of…

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Moderate Muslims Counter ISIS Propaganda With Their Own Media Strategy

  U.S. officials are concerned about the recruiting efforts of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, also known as ISIS, as the group has stepped up its online outreach. One team in southwestern Indiana who opposes the radical Islamist group is taking to the Web to reclaim the message of Islam. Dozens of four-minute Web episodes, targeting…

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Stop Saying “Moderate Muslims.” You’re Only Empowering Islamophobes.

June 25, 2014 Last week’s Heritage Foundation panel on the 2012 attacks in Benghazi was bound to be an ugly affair, what with the presence of panelist Brigitte Gabriel, a self-described “terrorism analyst” with a laundry list of offensive statements about Islam and Arabs. Sure enough, when attendee Saba Ahmed, an American University law school student, explained that not…

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We Need More Moderate Muslims in Politics

13 October 2010 Following the success of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in the recent Viennese elections, Erich Kocina calls on Austrian Muslims to become more involved in Austrian politics. Nonetheless, he warns that this participation must not be seen as encouraging Turkish or Muslim individuals to represent exclusively Turkish or Muslim interests,…

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Banned the Access to a Nursery School to a Woman Wearing the Burqa

September 21, 2010 In the village of Sonnino (Latina, Lazio); a nursery school attempted to ban a woman, who is married to an imam, donning the burqa after several complaints were made by other parents. The parents accused that the Muslim woman’s burqa frightened their children attending the nursery. An official meeting was held on…

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