HUQUQ Journal
How the War between Ideals and Practices in the West is Exposing Supremacism as the Force behind All Rights Abuses
Thursday, 14 September 2023
By Ahmed E. Souaiaia * When school started in France this fall, Muslim children who wished to wear an abaya (for girls) or a qamis (for boys) had to choose between the dress and education. They were compelled to make the difficult choice because the French government banned Islamic attire that offends secularism. France’s president,
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The Instrumentalization of Human Rights is the Most Serious Threat to Human Rights
Thursday, 02 February 2023
Abstract: Generally, human rights are claims made by disempowered social groups that those with power over them must do for them or must not do to them. As such, these rights can be universal. But so is the abuse of such rights because of the universality of power systems—all human societies, throughout history and across
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PERKEMBANGAN POLITIK HUKUM ISLAM PASCA REFORMASI DALAM PERSPEKTIF NEGARA HUKUM HANS KELSEN
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
by Marsono Wibowo Abstract As a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, it will directly or indirectly affect the development of the living order of the Indonesian people. The regimes change from time to time with policies that different from one to another, provide a variety of colors in the life of
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Systemic Racism in the U.S. Immigration Laws
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
by Kevin R. Johnson, UC Davis Abstract This Essay analyzes how aggressive activism in a California mountain town at the tail end of the nineteenth century commenced a chain reaction resulting in state and ultimately national anti-Chinese immigration laws. The constitutional immunity through which the Supreme Court upheld those laws deeply affected the future trajectory of
Sharia and Human Rights
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
by Ahmed E. Souaiaia* Abstract: Being an extremely dynamic determinant system that can be both formalized and popularized, Sharia has the potential to be used to promote and protect rights as well as to be an instrument of exclusion and human rights abuse. In fact, that is the role Sharia has played throughout the history
- Published in Essays, Journal, Jurisprudence
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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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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