1. Afghanistan Analysts Network
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
2. Chasing a Mirage
   The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2008
   According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
3. Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2018
   The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
4. Encyclopaedia of Islam
   New Editon
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. Headscarves and Hymens
   Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2015
   A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
6. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1987
   Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
   
7. Reflections on Islam
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
8. A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the oppressed.
9. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2008
   Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
   

Experts on Muslim Cultures in the Sources Directory

1. Organization of the Islamic Conference
2. Women Living Under Muslim Law