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Reflections on the Fate of Political Islam: A Reply To Zaid Shakir

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

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?”

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

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 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”

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 [...]