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Reflections on the Fate of Political Islam: A Reply To Zaid Shakir
(A reply to Zaid Shakir’s Al-Jazeera English article “The Egyptian Coup and the Fate of Political Islam”) The military coup against the Muslim Brotherhood backed Morsi administration has seen a revival of the “failure of [...]
Egypt: Liberal Hypocrisy No Laughing Matter
Reza Pankhurst Part-time comedian Bassem Youssef is the kind of Egyptian that liberals in the West can relate to. He was feted in Western media as a cause celebre for freedom of speech after an arrest [...]
Book Preview – Dr. Reza Pankhurst’s “The Inevitable Caliphate?”
‘Reza Pankhurst’s deftly argued, thought-provoking book addresses the significant yet neglected topic of [...]
Understanding Calls to a Caliphate
Reza Pankhurst A piece in the Economist entitled “Dreaming of a Caliphate” investigates how some thinkers are struggling with the concept of Islamic rule in the “modern” age where it appears the only acceptable polity is that of [...]
The Fallacy of the Blair Narrative and the War on Islam(ism)
The ‘Blair narrative’ is not new but dates back to the beginning of the so-called “war of terror.” It effectively shifts the blame off Western foreign policy—something for which the former British Prime Minister became detested [...]
Caliphate, Sharia law and “Islamist Extremism”
In the wake of the Woolwich murder in the UK on 22 May, an assortment of various British politicians, commentators, “counter-extremism experts” and self-described “ex-extremists” have stated that holding certain ideas are indications of what they [...]
