By AY Mol on 23-7-2010 14:14

This is one of my current projects in The Netherlands, where of course the debate about Islam has become very negative. Together with several other Muslim theolgians and writers, have we created a new website where we can combine the voices in Holland, to create a critical and selfreflecting debate about muslimcultures, interpretation of Islam etc.

 

See here the newsarticle:

 

A group of Islamic 'contemporary thinkers' launched a new website today in order to develop 'critical (self)-reflection' in the Muslim communities in the Netherlands. The Nieuwemoskee site [New Mosque] wants to break down rigid ideas about Islam and add depth to the fierce, but mostly oversimplified, Islam debate.

 

Reflections about the difficulty of Islam to nestle in Western society are often due to simplicity, according to the founders. In...

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By Farouk Peru on 7/6/2010 7:52 PM

It is indeed a misfortune for our great nation when the Institut Kefahaman Islam Malaysia lends its name to this article penned by its fellow, Md Asham Ahmed in the Star. The sheer haughtiness and arrogance displayed by Asham is embarrassing at the very least. At the most, it speaks of Islamofascist tendencies. I am not putting Md Asham in the same camp as Osama Bin Ladin but the seeds of the same kind of fascism are there. A simple ‘you are wrong, we are right, we are great’ set of tendencies. A point by point refutation of Asham’s article follows below:

1. Asham begins by saying ‘Many Muslim thinkers and leaders today, being educated in the West and severed from their religious intellectual tradition, do subscribe to the idea that all religions are the same, subject to development and changes.

If Asham is claiming that Islam has not been subject to ‘development and changes’, then one must wonder where...

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