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- 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.
- 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.
- Sharia Law in Britain -- A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
One Law for All says that Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.
- 'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2104
Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
- What isn't wrong with Sharia law?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.
- What's all the fuss about the veil?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
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