1. Afghanistan 1979-1992
   America's Jihad
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1995
   An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
2. Afghanistan Analysts Network
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
3. Against Fundamentalism and Imperialism - Review
   Against The Current vol. 161
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   A view of the inside forces in Pakistan.
4. An apology for the Danish cartoon crisis
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   One of the leading forces in the 2005–06 prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy, Danish Muslim activist Ahmed Akkari, now regrets his role as agitator and reveals a larger, more deliberate, and more vicious conspiracy behind the crisis than previously known.
5. Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
6. Atheist blogger hacked to death with machetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
7. Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
8. Bloggers Under Fire: The Fatal Consequences of Free Thinking in Bangladesh
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Six secular Bangladeshi writers have been killed since November of 2014: Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam, literary publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, and bloggers Avijit Roy, Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, Ananta Bijoy Das and Niloy Neel. At least a dozen more bloggers and progressive activists have been killed and scores of others attacked or threatened with death for their progressive and secular views since 2005.
9. The Case Against Bombing ISIS
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   The military campaign against ISIS is just the latest phase of US imperialism in the Middle East.
10. Chasing a Mirage
    The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
11. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
12. Chronicle of a death online: Hate campaign from Muslim fundamentalist groups from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and West Asia against a Muslim woman writer
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The case of Tamil Nadu journalist who was victim of online 'rape' and 'murder', perpetuated by Muslim fundamentalists.
13. The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The referendum campaign on Scottish independence heightened many people's awareness of the pro-elite bias of the 'mainstream' news media. The grassroots power of social media in exposing and countering this bias was heartening to see. But the issue of independence for Scotland is just one of many where the traditional media consistently favour establishment power.
14. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
15. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
16. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
17. The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
    Sunni v. Shia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    A war of extraordinary brutality is being waged across the Muslim world which is largely ignored by the media. It is a war in which victims are assassinated or massacred with no chance to defend themselves. Most of those who die are poor people murdered in obscure places without the world paying any attention.
18. Defying Fundamentalism
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism" By Karima Bennoune.
19. From Fatwa to Jihad
    The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
20. Professor Randall Hansen
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
21. Headscarves and Hymens
    Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
22. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    One afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. I was on the way home from interviewing female students - all of them devout, veiled Muslims - who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage.
23. Hekmat, Mansoor - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Mansoor Hekmat (1951-2002).
24. Here We Go Again
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
25. How Boko Haram Is Changing International Politics in Western and Central Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Two suicide attacks on June 22 in Maroua, northern Cameroon, left several people dead and many others wounded. Ten days earlier, 15 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a crowded market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. The attack came exactly three weeks after a similar bombing claimed the lives of 27 people in the same town.
26. How Israel Empowers Islamist Movements
    Shukran, Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    If Islamist movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bete noire, Israel. Without the help of successive Israeli governments, they may not have been able to realize their dreams. That is true in Gaza, in Beirut, in Cairo and even in Tehran.
27. How Syria's Secular Uprising Was Hijacked by Jihadists
    Al Qaeda's Second Act
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On Syria's descent into a sectarian civil war.
28. Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of Pakistan
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The true intent of the partition was to detach Pakistan from India, create a militarily strategic foothold aimed at the Soviet Union and maintain control over the oil fields of the Middle East.
29. Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
30. ISIS and the IDF: Canada's Double Standard
    Who are the Real Terrorists?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Why can westerners join the Israeli Defense Forces while westerners joining Islamic State are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one?
31. The Jihadis Return
    ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became notorious in the shape of al-Qa'ida at the turn of century. The West's initial successes in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan weakened their support still further. Today, as Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn sets out in this new book, that's all changed. Exploiting the missteps of the West's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, as well as its misjudgments in relation to Syria and the uprisings of the Arab Spring, jihadist organizations, of which ISIS is the most important, are swiftly expanding.
32. Journalist gets seven-year jail sentence for decade-old articles
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the seven-year jail sentence that a Dhaka court imposed today on former magazine editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury in connection with articles criticizing Islamism a decade ago.
33. The Mackenzie Institute
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
34. Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
35. Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
36. Malik, Kenan
    Resource Type: Website
    Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
37. Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
38. Multiculturalism fans the flames of islamic extremism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.
39. Muslim Canadian Congress
    Resource Type: Website
    A grassroots organization that provides a voice to Muslims who are not represented by existing organizations; organizations that are either sectarian or ethnocentric, largely authoritarian, and influenced by a fear of modernity and an aversion to joy.
40. My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
41. Maryam Namazie
    Resource Type: Website
    Maryam Namazie is a rights activist, and commentator and broadcaster on Iran, rights, cultural relativism, secularism, religion, political Islam and other related topics.
42. The new Islamo-Marxism: Where Trotsky meets bin Laden
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    
43. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
44. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
    
45. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
    Urban agriculture and local food production
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
46. Political correctness demands diversity in everything but thought
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    For 50 years I've been painstakingly cataloguing the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of US foreign policy, building up in the process a very loyal audience. To my great surprise, when I recently wrote about the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of the Islamic State, I received more criticism from my readers than I've gotten for anything I've ever written. Dozens of them asked to be removed from my mailing list, as many as I'd normally get in a full year. Others were convinced that it couldn’t actually be me who was the author of such words, that I must have been hacked. Some wondered whether my recent illness had affected my mind. Literally! And almost all of the Internet magazines which regularly print me did not do so with this article.
47. Radical Islam, Nihilist Rage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Muslims are not the only religious group involved in perpetrating horrors. From Christian militias in the Central African Republic reportedly eating their foes to Buddhist monks organizing anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar, there is cruelty aplenty in the world. Nor are religious believers alone in committing grotesque acts. We need to ask why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic forms today. And why has radical Islam become its principal vehicle?
48. Reasoning about terror
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The trouble with much of the discussion of terrorism today is that it misses a fundamental point about contemporary terror: its disconnect from social movements and political goals. In the past, an organisation such as the IRA was defined by its political aims. Its members were carefully selected and their activities tightly controlled. However misguided we might think its actions, there was a close relationship between the aims of the organization and the actions of its members. None of this is true when it comes to contemporary terrorism. An act of terror is rarely controlled by an organisation or related to a political demand. That is why it is so difficult to discern the political or religious motivations
49. Sex segregation in UK universities - a step forward for the Muslim religious right
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The authorities of universities in the UK have made public their policy of bending to religious fundamentalists by condoning sex segregation on university premises. The education system is especially targeted, as controlling the minds of the youth is critical.
50. The Sharia socialists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    
51. The spread of Wahhabism, and the West's responsibility to the world
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In 2013, the European Union declared Wahhabism the main source of global terrorism. But it's not just a "Middle East problem"; it is our problem, too.
52. Threatening email orders Bangladeshi media to fire women
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the threats against news media and bloggers contained in a email that was sent to a score of Bangladeshi print and broadcast media outlets on 19 October, and calls on the authorities to take concrete measures
53. 24 reasons ISIS are wrong: Muslim scholars blast Islamic State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A large group of Islamic theologians addressed the head of the Islamic State in an open letter, articulately accusing the movement of practices that have nothing to do with Islam, even rejecting the extremists’ right to call themselves jihadists.
54. Uk needs modern mosques
    The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
55. UK: Walking a tightrope: Between the pro-Islamist Left and the far-Right
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Opposing Sharia and Islamism in the west is like walking on a tight rope most of the time -- thwarting attacks from the Left, refuting cultural relativism, preventing alliances with the far-Right, explaining the issues ignored by government and the media, mobilising support for secularism and citizenship whilst opposing racism and xenophobia, and making linkages with the many fighting Islamism on the ground in countries across the world.
56. The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
57. Wahhabism
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Wahhabism is a religious movement or branch of Sunni Islam. It has been variously described as "orthodox", "ultraconservative", "austere","fundamentalist", "puritanical" (or "puritan") and as an Islamic "reform movement" to restore "pure monotheistic worship" (tawhid) by scholars and advocates, and as an "extremist pseudo-Sunni movement" by opponents. Adherents often object to the term Wahhabi or Wahhabism as derogatory, and prefer to be called Salafi or muwahhid.
58. We're facing a new Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
59. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
    Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
60. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.

Experts on Islamic Fundamentalism in the Sources Directory

1. Women Living Under Muslim Law