- 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.
- Against Fundamentalism and Imperialism - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A view of the inside forces in Pakistan.
- American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War on America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
- An apology for the Danish cartoon crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
One of the leading forces in the 2005–06 prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy, Danish Muslim activist Ahmed Akkari, now regrets his role as agitator and reveals a larger, more deliberate, and more vicious conspiracy behind the crisis than previously known.
- Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
- The Armageddon Factor: The rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
- Born in Bradford
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Multiculturalism transformed the character of antiracism. By the mid-1980s the focus of antiracist protest in Bradford had shifted from political issues, such as policing and immigration, to religious and cultural issues: a demand for Muslim schools and for separate education for girls, a campaign for halal meat to be served at school, and, most explosively, the confrontation over the publication of The Satanic Verses. Political struggles unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment.
- Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
An understanding of the Christian Right, a loose coalition of politically conservative congregations and organizations, is critical to understanding the US. This quiz seeks to explore the political influence of the Christian Right, and to highlight the threat its radical fundamentalists pose to the majority of Americans who value pluralism and tolerance.
- 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.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Chronicle of a death online: Hate campaign from Muslim fundamentalist groups from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and West Asia against a Muslim woman writer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The case of Tamil Nadu journalist who was victim of online 'rape' and 'murder', perpetuated by Muslim fundamentalists.
- 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.
- Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
Sunni v. Shia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
A war of extraordinary brutality is being waged across the Muslim world which is largely ignored by the media. It is a war in which victims are assassinated or massacred with no chance to defend themselves. Most of those who die are poor people murdered in obscure places without the world paying any attention.
- The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
- 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.
- From Fatwa to Jihad
The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
- God's plan for climate change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
How, and why, does the US Right and its evangelical 'Christian' wing campaign for mal-education, ignorance, corporate dominance, and the profligate consumption of fossil fuels?
- 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.
- Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The true intent of the partition was to detach Pakistan from India, create a militarily strategic foothold aimed at the Soviet Union and maintain control over the oil fields of the Middle East.
- Infidel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
- Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- Lure of the Sinister
The Unnatural History of Satanism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis
Following the Money
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
- Malik, Kenan
Resource Type: Website
Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
- Multiculturalism fans the flames of islamic extremism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.
- 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.
- Maryam Namazie
Resource Type: Website
Maryam Namazie is a rights activist, and commentator and broadcaster on Iran, rights, cultural relativism, secularism, religion, political Islam and other related topics.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- Not by Politics Alone
The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
An informative study on the Christian Right, this book addresses how politics and culture converge. Diamond provides an analysis of how "family values" are infused with evangelical beliefs on a number of societal issues.
- On Buddhist Fundamentalism
Hollywood, Please Take Note
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS — Bodu Bala Sena: the most active and pernicious of Buddhist fundamentalist groups that have sprouted in Sinhala strongholds throughout the island— are on the rampage again.
- On the Second Coming of Religion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The question we should ask is not just: ‘What is it about religion that makes people believe or behave in certain ways?’ It is also: ‘What is it about contemporary societies that draws many people, both religious and non-religious, towards nihilistic, narcissistic, anti-modern forms of belief?’
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Pakistan, hostage of the religious - The radical left in resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Radical leftists strive amid fundamentalist hostility in Pakistan where blasphemy is a serious charge with its roots in colonial religious divisions.
- Pakistan's blasphemy laws – The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- Radical Islam, Nihilist Rage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Muslims are not the only religious group involved in perpetrating horrors. From Christian militias in the Central African Republic reportedly eating their foes to Buddhist monks organizing anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar, there is cruelty aplenty in the world. Nor are religious believers alone in committing grotesque acts. We need to ask why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic forms today. And why has radical Islam become its principal vehicle?
- The return of religion - and other myths
Talk at a conference on 'Post-secularism', Utrecht, Netherlands, 11 January 2009
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Politics has became less about competing visions of the kinds of society people than a debate about how best to manage the existing political system. As the meaning of politics has become squeezed, so people have begun to view themselves and their social affiliations in a different way. Social solidarity has become increasingly defined not in political terms - as collective action in pursuit of certain political ideals – but in terms of ethnicity or culture. The politics or ideology, in other words, gave way to the politics of identity. It’s not faith, but identity, that has created the faultlines of contemporary conflicts.
- 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.
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
- Sex segregation in UK universities - a step forward for the Muslim religious right
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The authorities of universities in the UK have made public their policy of bending to religious fundamentalists by condoning sex segregation on university premises. The education system is especially targeted, as controlling the minds of the youth is critical.
- The Sharia socialists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
- Slumming It At the Rodeo
The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
- Stephen Harper's Covert Evangelicalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
How an apocalyptic strain of Christianity guides Stephen Harper's policies and campaigning.
- Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
- Using the divine for corporate power
Review of The Empire God Built
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
- Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
- Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.
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