Tag Archives: Islam and Islamism
The niqab represents a pernicious ideology and its spread should worry us all
Mohamed El-Doufani says the proliferation of the Muslim veil, the niqab, and its equally primitive variants is an indicator of the spread of a pernicious ideology propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood and other ultra-reactionary Salafists and should be of concern to everyone. Read more [...]
“أيهما أهم: دين الرئيس أم سلطاته” (Which is more important: the president’s religion or power?)
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أين يكمن العيب؟ (Where does the defect lie?)
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قبل Read more [...]
العيب فينا (The defect is in us)
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هناك Read more [...]
رد على مقالة الديمقراطية و الشورى (Response to the article Democracy and Shura)
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Whither Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism?
James Dorsey analyses the structural societal and political obstacles to Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s professed desire to reform and modernise Saudi Arabia and place it on the path of an undefined “moderate Islam”. Read more [...]
Saudi-Moroccan spat: Competing for the mantle of “moderate Islam”
James Dorsey says Morocco’s attempt to portray itself as a promoter of so-called “moderate Islam” so far appears more convincing than the efforts of Saudi Arabia to that end, especially in light of recent Saudi concessions to ultra-conservatives. Read more [...]
هل يمكن الشفاء من الطائفية؟ (Is it possible to be cured of sectarianism?)
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Saudi export of ultra-conservatism in the era of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman
James Dorsey examines the extent to which the self-styled reformist de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, is disengaging from extremist Sunni Islamist groups, or whether the Saudis’ anti-Shia obsession is making the extremists too useful a tool to drop. Read more [...]
The Saudi-Israeli liaison
Lawrence Davidson examines the common underpinnings of Israel and Saudi Arabia, two countries run like restricted clubs, one demanding that you be Jewish to have membership rights, and the other wants you to be a Sunni Muslim of the Wahhabi tradition. Read more [...]
