Word: ramadan
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Commentator Tariq Ramadan's Viewpoint column urged the West to remember "the critical role that Muslims played in the development of Western thought" [Nov. 27]. If Ramadan wants to bolster the image of Islam in the West today, however, he would do better to implore Muslims around the world to protest any and all acts of violence, intimidation and terrorism committed in the name of Allah. Only when Muslims learn to accept Christians and members of other religions will they no longer be taken as a threat to world peace...
...Ramadan listed "mutual respect of human rights, basic freedoms, rule of law and democracy" as values common to Christianity and Islam. But instead of claiming that Islam is misunderstood, why don't Muslims openly oppose Islamic nations that do not share those ideals? And even if Islamic radicals make up only a "marginal minority" of the roughly 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, that is still an enormous number of fanatics willing to die and take as many infidels with them as they...
...20th century, proclaimed a republic after almost 500 years of rule by the Ottoman Empire. And although Istanbul is home to synagogues and churches and is also the capital of the Greek Orthodox world, the city remains predominantly Islamic. On the one hand, it is so liberal that during Ramadan fasting is considered a private choice and lunchtime joints are packed. On the other, the sight of women in head scarves, which had all but disappeared, has become increasingly familiar again, in large part due to massive migrations from the more traditional Eastern side of the country, which stretches...
Australia's most senior Islamic cleric, Sheik Taj Al-Din Hilali, was justly slapped down by the community after he described women who did not wear the hijab (headdress) as "uncovered meat." In a Ramadan sermon in September, the mufti also told his flock that women, by the way they dress and act, were to blame for sexual assault. When the comments were reported in late October by the Australian newspaper, the nation's leaders condemned Hilali. After he apologized, claiming his words were taken out of context, Hilali fell into the arms of his physicians. He rode...
...Tariq Ramadan, a research fellow at Oxford, is the author of several books on Islam, including To Be a European Muslim