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. Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
3. Bussy-Saint-Georges, the town with built-in religious harmony
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Planners hope construction of a multi-faith district will bring together the citizens of a new town near Paris.
4. Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. 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.
6. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
7. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
8. Free speech for me - you shut up
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2008
   The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
   
9. The lessons we have learned
   Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2002
   A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
10. Malik, Kenan
    Resource Type: Website
    Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
11. Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same "moral panic," invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called "Ground Zero mosque."
12. Muslim Canadian Congress
    Resource Type: Website
    A grassroots organization that provides a voice to Muslims who are not represented by existing organizations; organizations that are either sectarian or ethnocentric, largely authoritarian, and influenced by a fear of modernity and an aversion to joy.
13. 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."
    
14. Religious Minorities Should Fight Hatred Together
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A Gallup Poll showing the linkages of hatred between groups should foster more collaboration

Experts on Religious Tolerance in the Sources Directory

1. Ulli Diemer
2. Women Living Under Muslim Law