1. After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
   A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
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. Connexions
   Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
4. Professor Randall Hansen
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
6. Limits on Liberty
   The Experience of Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor Communities in Canada
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   In this book, Janzen examines the beliefs and way of life of the Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor Communities in Canada.
7. Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
8. More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions that make criticising religion a crime.
9. Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of ‘reason’ or ‘science’, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause ‘harm’. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
10. The St. Petersburg Declaration
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
11. Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
12. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
13. The Waterloo Mennonites
    A Community in paradox
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Fretz discussed about the history and life of the Mennonites as a community. He concludes that Mennonites have contributed much in community leadership, education, health professions, business and political office once they overcome prior distrust of the world.

Experts on Religious Liberty in the Sources Directory

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