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• UK: Priyamvada Gopal’s Double Bind - Gender Segregation and the Postmodern Politics of Despair
  2 January 2014, by siawi3

  Gopal’s article begins with a long attack - not on the religiously-mandated subordination of women, but on its opponents. These awful people, we are given to understand, are the chauvinistic defenders of fraudulent and oppressive ’Western values’, or what Gopal describes as “an intolerant Western ’liberalism’ passing itself off as ‘secular’, ‘enlightened’ and more knowing-than-thou”. Any feminist in the UK or North America who raises issues of gender politics in Muslim majority countries is likely to be called an Orientalist [...] If she is white, she will be told she is colonialist; if she is a woman of colour or feminist from the Global South, she will be considered to lack authenticity. She will be accused of “essentialising” political Islam and ignoring differences within it; of lacking nuance and failing to contextualise; of having internalised ideas of Western superiority; of perpetuating binaries as progressive vs. reactionary, liberal vs conservative, secular vs fundamentalist; of being a traitor to her community and culture.

• La laïcité est une condition indispensable aux droits des femmes
  15 novembre 2016, par siawi3

  Le problème n’est donc pas de savoir si l’idéologie-islam est compatible avec la démocratie, mais de savoir qui parle pour l’islam aujourd’hui. Et il est parfaitement clair que ce sont les voix les plus réactionnaires qui se font entendre aujourd’hui et qui écrasent dans le sang toutes les résistances et contestations, qu’elles émanent de musulmans, de croyants en d’autres religions, d’athées, d’agnostiques – tous désignés comme kofr. Les media ne donnent aucun écho aux voix progressistes, laissant ainsi croire qu’elles n’existent pas. Ce n’est pas le retour de la religion qui met en danger les démocraties, c’est le retour des fascismes, y compris sous cette forme moderne qu’est l’intégrisme religieux avec des ambitions politiques, législatives, et de gouvernement.

• Tunisia is leading the way on women’s rights in the Middle East
  30 September 2011, by siawi3

  Tunisia is the first country in the region to withdraw reservations to the UN convention granting equal rights to men and women

• Reinforcing presumed religious identities: where are women and secularists of Muslim countries in Obama’s speech in Cairo?
  5 June 2009, by Marieme Helie Lucas

  It is beyond doubt that many people around the world, of various political opinions and creeds, will feel relieved after the discourse the President of the USA delivered in Cairo today. It is apparently a new voice, a voice of peace, quite far from Bush’s clash of civilisations. But is it so?

• USA: History of Muslimish
  18 September 2018, by siawi3

  Ibrahim Abdallah, founder of Muslimish, shares the story of the inception of Muslimish, how it developed its name, and how it became a rare space offering discussion and connection among freethinkers of Muslim backgrounds.

• Ex-Muslims in the USA: Our stories
  18 September 2018, by siawi3

  Muslimish Freethinkers - Dedicated to fostering conversations on matters of faith & disbelief / I take pride in being one of the founding members of Muslimish who shaped the core principles and goals of the group: creating a safe environment for discussion, fostering a pluralist society, and abolishing blasphemy laws across the globe. / I feel very strongly that I can denounce a religion while still feeling compassion for and respect the human rights of its followers. This pluralistic stance is why I am a member of Muslimish. / There is a clear need for Muslims of all persuasions to come together and start a movement that probes the limits of our historic knowledge, that casts this level of certainty into doubt and that redefines what it means to be a Muslim in globalized world in the 21^st century. It is no longer feasible for Muslims to bury their heads in the sands of 6^th century Arabia.

• Dans la prison des identités religieuses : où sont les femmes et les laïcs des pays musulmans dans le discours d’Obama au Caire ?
  5 juin 2009, par Marieme Helie Lucas

  Sans aucun doute bien des gens d’obédiences diverses vont se sentir soulagés devant le discours du Président des Etats Unis au Caire aujourd’hui. Ils y verront un ton nouveau, un appel à la paix, bien loin du clash des civilisations à la Bush. Mais est ce vraiment le cas ?

• Secularization without Secularism in Pakistan
  13 September 2018, by siawi3

  In fact, Iqbal – and not Jinnah – is the real founder of the two-nation theory according to which Hindus and Muslims are not two religious communities, but form two nations with specific interests and cultural features. Here, religion becomes an ideology.

• France: Provocations et guerres des religions
  14 July 2010, by siawi2
  Source: Le Monde.fr. Droites extrèmes, Abel Mestre et Caroline Monnot, journalistes au Monde, décriptent les populismes de droite
  http://droites-extremes.blog.lemonde.fr/2010/06/09/apero-geant-goutte-dor-les-identitaires-et-riposte-laique-font-manip-c
• Canada: ’Sex with your slave’...
  23 September 2014, by siawi3

  Zakir Naik is an Indian Islamist who is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF); here he explains it all about Muslim men’s rights and duties regarding their slaves - in 2013.

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