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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

Literature produced during the colonial era, especially by orientalist scholars, depicted Muslims in a binary manner. 'Good' Muslims were those who either collaborated with the colonial enterprise or accepted the values and customs of the dominant power. The rest, the 'bad' Muslims, were those who 'resisted'. Times have changed, but the old mindsets and simplistic portrayals continue to cast a shadow over today’s intellectual, political and media debate about Islam, notes Tariq Ramadan...

The Wall of Shame

Now, the Egyptian government becomes the ally of Israeli policy at its worst: isolating, strangling, starving, and smothering Palestinian civilian life after having eradicated hundreds. If successive Israeli governments know one thing—with which we must agree—it is this: the Palestinian people will not surrender, notes Tariq Ramadan...

Debating the Extreme Right

For years, the extreme right-wing parties in Europe have played on fear, the need for security, and the rejection of the other. For our democracies, the slippage is a doubly dangerous one. We are no longer in the realm of ideas, of the freedom to think and to choose..

Geer Wilders Anti-Qur’an Film: Silence will be the best response

Netherlands: A movie-provocation about which everybody is talking while nobody knows anything ! Silence will be the best response.. ..

A case of selective hearing

In her opinion page article on Dec. 8, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch legislator and author of "Infidel," accused the so-called "moderate" Muslims of remaining silent instead of condemning acts done in the name of Islam by individuals or governments...