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Archive: April 19, 2009 - April 25, 2009
You Cannot Force People to Believe
It is reasonable to ask, for example, why Saudi Arabia finances the building of mosques around the world, while prohibiting the building of churches anywhere within the Saudi kingdom.
By Thomas G. Bohlin | April 24, 2009; 5:21 PM ET | Comments (11)
The Taliban, Sharia and Women's Leadership
Women must enter this sphere of religious interpretation - in Pakistan or elsewhere - especially as we are the first to suffer from this oppression.
By Daisy Khan | April 24, 2009; 4:39 PM ET | Comments (9)
Pakistan Must Stand Against Taliban
We the citizens of Pakistan are angry and dismayed at the abject capitulation of the state of Pakistan before the Taliban insurgents in Swat.
By Salman Ahmad | April 24, 2009; 10:00 AM ET | Comments (4)
Secular Isn't Always Better
There is no cogent reason -- neither rational nor historical -- to assume that a state must be governed by a secular system.
By Adin Steinsaltz | April 23, 2009; 9:23 AM ET | Comments (26)
How Islamic Law Can Work
Rather than fear Shariah law, we should understand what it actually is. Then we can encourage Muslim countries to make the changes that achieve the essence of fairness and justice that are at the root of Islam.
By Feisal Abdul Rauf | April 23, 2009; 8:16 AM ET | Comments (141)
Totalitarians in Religious Clothing
Those who want Islamic law in Pakistan are violent and extreme. They are very visible. Those who want Islamic law in Turkey are more subtle in their tactics.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | April 23, 2009; 8:03 AM ET | Comments (5)
The Dangerous Hypocrisy of Theocrats
The real debate here is about who decides what's right for people, people themselves or God.
By Brad Hirschfield | April 23, 2009; 7:48 AM ET | Comments (4)
Fundamentalism the Real Issue in Religious Rule
The issue to be addressed isn't radical Islam or rule by religious authorities, but fundamentalism--the notion that someone (or ones) could ever be in a position to mediate someone else's relationship to God
By Phil Davis | April 22, 2009; 12:17 PM ET | Comments (11)
Talibanization of Pakistan
If the majority of the population of Pakistan want the kind of rule that Taliban offers how can the rest of the world stop them?
By Arun Gandhi | April 21, 2009; 9:25 PM ET | Comments (12)
Religion Stay Home!
Religion has proven to be the breeding ground for people who want to control other people, in the name of God. When religion steps into the role of government, a.k.a. control, it loses its claim of goodness and morality.
By Susan K. Smith | April 21, 2009; 4:14 PM ET | Comments (10)
The President and the Christian Ethic
My interpretation of Jesus' commands to forgive people, no matter what, must be so strong because of Mary Lee, my mother. She was a strong woman, a woman who believed in God. I say it that way because she never...
By Susan K. Smith | April 21, 2009; 2:26 PM ET | Comments (2)
Religion in Power: Bad for the People, Worse for Religion
Of all the world's legal systems, Islam's sharia is the most change-resistant and the greatest threat to personal freedoms.
By Willis E. Elliott | April 20, 2009; 11:59 PM ET | Comments (11)
The Coming Evangelical Future
Across America there is a rapid spread of new churches meeting in schools, community centers, restaurants, theaters and any other rentable gathering place.
By Leith Anderson | April 20, 2009; 3:19 PM ET | Comments (10)
Winning Freedom from Religion
The question of Islamic law in Pakistan is entangled --or should we say strangled?--by a host of social factors.
By Deepak Chopra | April 20, 2009; 2:58 PM ET | Comments (32)
No Apology, Sanction To Theocrats
We cannot continue to play footsie with states governed by religious laws that sanction every kind of human rights abuses in the name of their deity.
By Susan Jacoby | April 20, 2009; 2:47 PM ET | Comments (122)
