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  1. Age of Extremes
    The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
  2. The Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam
    Against The Current vol. 156

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The contemporary Arab political system, until the recent outbreak of Arab revolutions, is the byproduct of a number of domestic, regional and global arrangements and developments in the post-World War II international order.
  3. Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
  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. Confronting fears of Eurabia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Growing anti-immigrant and Islamophobic sentiments have been fueled by statistics that claim to show that countries such as Germany and France will have Muslim majority populations by the turn of the century.
  7. 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.
  8. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
  9. Encyclopaedia of Islam
    New Editon

    Resource Type: Book
  10. Omar Ha-Redeye
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    ‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
  14. 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.
  15. Reflections on Islam
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  16. Islamic Extremism is a Product of Western Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    So what happened to bring Islamic fundamentalism to the forefront of global politics? While there are many factors involved, undoubtedly one of the primary causes is Western imperialism.
  17. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  18. The Islamophobia Myth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
  19. 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.
  20. A Marxist History of the World part 22: Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner describes the rise and explosive spread of the third great monotheistic religion, where compassion, charity, and protection became moral imperatives - Islam.
  21. A Marxist History of the World part 23: The Abbasid Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Islam created a single overarching allegiance throughout the Arab-ruled world yet the Middle East came to be a divided region of weak and unpopular states. Neil Faulkner looks at the conflicts that lay behind this process.
  22. 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.
  23. Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
  24. The niqab represents a pernicious ideology and its spread should worry us all
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A look at the controversial niqab and similar veils, and why they are so concerning.
  25. 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."
  26. 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?’
  27. Our Generation
    Volume 19 Number 1

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
  28. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  29. Photo Exhibit: Hyphen Islam-Christianity - Beit Zatoun Toronto - September 11, 2010
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    An exhibition of 60 stunning photographs from Lebanon opening on September 11, at Beit Zatoun TORONTO. Hyphen Islam-Christianity brings together two religions, two cultures, respecting each other's differences and contributions.
  30. Reflections on a Religion of Hate
    Engaging in War Crimes

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Refelctions on US preparations to engage in more acts of war against yet another Middle Eastern country.
  31. Review: Defying Fundamentalism
    A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Concerned with the rising Jihadist fundamentalism on one hand, and increasing discrimination against Muslims following 9/11 on the other, and having in mind the question repeated by many commentators — “Why don’t Muslims speak out?” — Bennoune documents the voices of Muslims in various ways victimized by Islamic fundamentalists.
  32. 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.
  33. 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).
  34. The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism
    When a classmate told 19-year-old Heraa Hashmi that “all terrorists are Muslims” she began to compile a dossier of all instances of Muslims

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Muslims are constantly denouncing atrocities that have been committed in the name of Islam. Yet many people seem to think Muslims don't condemn terrorism enough. So Heraa Hashmi decided to put the notion to the test.
  35. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
  36. The Socialist Register 1989
    Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  37. Socialist Register 2003
    Volume 39: Fighting Identities

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2003
  38. Sources welcomes Omar Ha-Redeye
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member: Omar Ha-Redeye. Omar Ha-Redeye is frequently interviewed by the media on subjects relating to health, security, law, politics, social media, disasters, minority rights and multiculturalism.
  39. Thou Shalt Not Give Offence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Kenan Malik looks at the free speech debates around the Danish cartoons and Charlie Hebdo.
  40. 24 reasons ISIS are wrong: Muslim scholars blast Islamic State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A large group of Islamic theologians addressed the head of the Islamic State in an open letter, articulately accusing the movement of practices that have nothing to do with Islam, even rejecting the extremists’ right to call themselves jihadists.
  41. Uk needs modern mosques
    The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
  42. Voyages To Utopia
    From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
  43. When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and start thinking about how an obsession with both Islam and Islamophobia distorts our culture and our debates.
  44. Why I Am Not A Muslim
    Resource Type: Book

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