Seeking Allah in the Midlands
Islam appears to hold a strange fascination for white British women who are converting to it in large numbers. Of an estimated 50,000 or so white Britons who convert to Islam every year, some...
View ArticleAnd See What’s Happening In Indonesia…
Over the last few years, Jakarta has laid down legal infrastructure that discriminates against religious minorities, allowing Islamists to take the law into their own hands, says Pallavi Aiyer. Read...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Is Redefining Islam For The World’s Largest Muslim Nation
Since 1980, Saudi Arabia has devoted millions of dollars to exporting its strict brand of Islam, Salafism, to historically tolerant and diverse Indonesia. It has built more than 150 mosques (albeit in...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Tips The Balance Between Mosque And State
Modern Arab societies such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia have long struggled to reconcile the claims of state and religion. For some autocrats in the Middle East, religion offers a source of legitimacy....
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