Women
Against Fundamentalisms
Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Solidarity
Network
Khaled
Abou El Fad "Islam
and the Theology of Power" Middle East Report 221,
Winter 2001
Catherine Wessinger, "Bin
Laden and Revolutionary Millennialism" New
Orleans Times-Picayune October 10, 2001]
Resources
on Islam, Bin Laden and Apocalypticism" Center for Millenial Studies
Boston University
Jean E. Rosenfeld, Ph.D. "The
`Religion' of Usamah bin Ladin: Terror As the Hand of God" Polictial
Research Associates
Thomas Friedman "The
Real War" New York Times Nov. 27
We're
not fighting to eradicate "terrorism." Terrorism is just a tool.
We're fighting to defeat an ideology: religious totalitarianism. .. It
has to be fought in schools, mosques, churches and synagogues, and can be
defeated only with the help of imams, rabbis and priests.
G. Jefferson Price III, "Mideast
'friends' could do more" Baltimore Sun Nov. 18
If America put pressure on repressive Egypt and Saudi Arabia to
open up, it might not be so hated.
Amnesty International "Special
Focus Cases: Saad Eddin Ibrahim"
Founder
of an Egyptian organization that promotes
democracy and human rights.convicted in May
2001 and sentenced to seven years in prison. His crime making a documentary film
about Egyptian election irregularities. Amnesty International declares Dr. Ibrahim
and hiscolleagues to be prisoners conscience and seeks their
immediate and unconditional release. SEND
AN EMAIL.
Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies
Dr. Ibrahim's think tank.
Democracy
Egypt Defending Civil Society
Michael Lind, "Which
Civilization" Prospect
Faoud Ajami,
"What
the Muslim World Is Watching" New York Times Sunday Magazine
Nov. 18
David Greenberg, "The
Roots of Arab Anti-Semitism: Radical Islam's Favorite Western Tradition"
Slate
Salman Rushdie, "Yes
This Is About Islam" New York Times
[registration required]
Institute
for the Secularization of Islamic Societies
Chip Berlet, "Terms
and Concepts: Use With Caution"
Questions
for Cairo
Interview with an
Egyptian democratic leftist
Shaha
Aliriza and Laila Hamad.
"Time to Help Mideast Democrats" Washington Post Oct. 20
Ziauddin Sardar, "Islam has
become its own enemy" The Observer Oct 21
Kanan Makiya, "Fighting
Islam's Ku Klux Klan" The Observer October 7
"Lenin
Vs. Trotsky in the Middle East" London Times
Not a
discussion of Leninist sects! Uses the analogy to analyze two trends among
Islamic fundamentalists.
