Archive for July 8th, 2007
Zainah Anwar: Islam & Women in Malaysia
http://www.sistersinislam.org.my/zainahcolumns.htm
Biodata of Zainah Anwar
Zainah Anwar is the Executive Director of Sisters in Islam (SIS), a non-governmental organisation working on the rights of Muslim women within the framework of Islam. She is also a former member of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.
Zainah Anwar is key to the high public profile of Sisters in Islam. [...]
Tariq Ramadan: Shariah
Shariah: Rethinking the use of Muslim law
Tariq Ramadan The Boston Globe
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2005
The application of the Islamic penal code (known by the widely misunderstood term “Shariah”) in Muslim societies is one of the most controversial subjects in the dialogue between the West and the Muslim world. The imposition of corporal punishment, [...]
Perda Tangerang cont…
Indonesian Islam’s softer hard line
By Seth Mydans
Thursday, June 28, 2007
TANGERANG, Indonesia: When Lieutenant Colonel Antonius Tihadi confronts an unmarried couple in a hotel room, he does so very politely, he said.
“We don’t kick down the door or anything like that.”
Under a local ordinance that includes elements of Islamic Shariah law, Tihadi heads the enforcement unit [...]
Bassam Tibi: shariah & democracy
The clash of Shariah and democracy
By Bassam Tibi International Herald Tribune
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2005
GÖTTINGEN, Germany When America toppled Saddam Hussein, it promised to replace his ruthless and lawless regime with a government characterized by the rule of law. But what kind of law?
The draft Iraqi constitution provides for Islam as “a fundamental [...]
