Iran Renews Interpol Request To Arrest Trump, Other U.S. Officials, for their role in the assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Soleimani
Tuesday, 05 January 2021
Iran is asking Interpol to issue a “red notice” for the arrest of President Trump and 47 other U.S. officials, citing the targeted killing a year ago of Qassem Soleimani, a powerful Iranian general. It’s the second time Iran has asked for help in detaining the U.S. president.
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Are Human Rights Compatible with Islam?
Friday, 30 October 2020
By Riffat Hassan, Ph.D. Though the Universal declaration of Human Rights is called “Universal”, it “was articulated along the lines of historical trends of the Western world during the last three centuries, and a certain philosophical anthropology of individualistic humanism which helped justify them” [1]. The basic assumptions underlying the Declaration were a) of a
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ISSUES OF COMPATIBILITY HUMAN RIGHTS AND ISLAM: The Experience of Egypt and Indonesia
Friday, 30 October 2020
by Sus Eko Ernada This paper describes the plurality of Muslim responses to the modern conception of human rights, drawing in particular on Muslim interpretations of key human rights issues in the discourse of human rights and Islam -women’s rights, religious freedom and minority rights, and corporal punishment- in Egypt and Indonesia. The case studies
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Human Rights in Islam
Friday, 30 October 2020
by Najma Moosa Introduction: Conflicts between human rights and religion do exist. Is this true of Islam? The answer is not as simple as ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Although an examination of human rights in an Islamic context will reveal its theocentric rather than secular and judicial basis, this paper asserts that, notwithstanding (later) Islamic law
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Women’s Human Rights and Islam : a Study of Three Attempts at Accommodation
Friday, 30 October 2020
by Jonas Svensson Abstract The dissertation focuses on interpretations of Islam that claim compatibility with international human rights norms in the context of women’s rights. These interpretations are seen as parts of an on-going contemporary international debate on women’s human rights and Islam that engages Muslims as well as non-Muslims. Existing UN-formulated international human rights
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Misconceptions About Human Rights and Women’s Rights in Islam
Friday, 30 October 2020
by Khalida Tanvir Syed This paper aims to clarify three current misconceptions about the Islamic faith and issues of human rights and women’s rights in the West. The first misconception is that Muslims are terrorists because they believe in Jihad. It is factually the case that Islamic teachings stress the value of peace and prosperity
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Human Rights in Islam
Friday, 30 October 2020
The Qur’an is the Book of Revelation which Muslims believe to be God’s Word transmitted through the agency of Angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Of all the sources of the Islamic tradition, undoubtedly, the most important is the Qur’an which is regarded by Muslims in general as the primary, and
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