This week’s front page editor
Francesc Badia i Dalmases is Editor and Director of democraciaAbierta.
No to TTIP
Constitutional conventions: best practice
"Born-again" Muslims: cultural schizophrenia
The divine rage that sparked the attacks on New York and Washington was inspired by the collision between a particular interpretation of Islamic faith and disabling social experience, says Malise Ruthven.
(This article was first published on 27 September 2001)
Arab states, Islamism and the West
"Think, America. Why do we hate you?" This sentiment, which appeared in the first demonstrations against the war on terrorism, expresses two essential requirements of a new Western approach to the Muslim world: to think and to know.
Recognising the Taliban
Where is the 'W' factor? Women and the war on Afghanistan
The terrorists may still be hiding out in caves, but the caveman mentality is widespread among all the participants in this war.
Roots of terror: suicide, martyrdom, self-redemption and Islam
After 11 September 2001 I was frequently asked, as many scholars of Islamic studies probably were, why certain people are prepared to hijack an aeroplane and plunge themselves and all the other passengers to certain death. I do not have an answer. What I have done instead is to tell three stories about the cult of martyrdom in Shiite Islam, about modern fantasies of salvation through self-sacrifice, and about power politics in the Middle East which together assemble the elements of a fourth: the unfinished story of the modern world.
A plea to American Muslims
Disneyland Islam
The view from Palestine
Radical Islam and 9/11: inside the fundamentalist mind
A new apartheid in the making?
A time to rethink
Bloody Tuesday
Terror and globalisation: Islam outside the state
The suicide of fundamentalism
