Egyptian intellectual Tarek Heggy calls for new dialogue with Islamic world
Below is being reposted in its entirety with permission from Tarek Heggy. On April 23, 2009, the Hudson Institute hosted a panel during the Durban Review Conference with an eminent group of Muslim scholars from Egypt, Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. The following is the speech given by Tarek Heggy, a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )‘Rays of Light’ Five honored for fighting terrorism
A former Islamic extremist, two senators, a former CIA director and a Lebanese man who missed his parents’ funerals rather than be silenced were honored last week as “Rays of Light in the Darkness” during EMET-the Endowment for Middle East Truth’s third annual awards dinner.
About 225 people gathered in the Russell Senate office building to pay tribute to Sens. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), former CIA director James Woolsey, Fox News television terrorism analyst Walid Phares and former Islamic extremist Tawfik Hamid.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Can Radical Islam be defeated by Modernizing Islam?
In contrast to most religions of the world, in particular Christianity and Judaism, Islam has not yet gone through a modernization process. While Christians and Jews have managed throughout their history to reconcile religion with freedom, Muslims have not. Why is that? [Read more to find out]
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