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Published in: 50.50From 1990s Algeria to 9/11 and ISIS: understanding the history of "Homo islamicus fundamentalensis"Today’s brutal jihadists like “Islamic State” follow in the footsteps of fundamentalists who have afflicted Muslim...
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Published in: 50.5025 years: women working against fundamentalism in the UKIn 1989 women of many faiths and none formed a collective in London to work at the interface of feminism and...
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Published in: 50.50No laughing matter: Women and the new populism in TurkeyStirring up moral anxieties over women's conduct and propriety is key to a populist discourse that pits a virtuous...
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Published in: 50.50Gaza: The Jewish Right and the Muslim Right
The war in Gaza has strengthened both the Muslim Right and the Jewish Right; while the results have been disastrous...
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Published in: 50.50Is that what we fought for? Gaddafi's legacy for Libyan women
Women played a largely unreported role in last year’s revolution in Libya. Now they have to fight both Islamist and...
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Published in: 50.50Human rights without religion is like a fish without a bicycle
Is separation between religion and the state essential to human rights? Meredith Tax says secular space is necessary...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSisi’s religious conquestThe purging of the Muslim Brotherhood from Egyptian politics will not necessarily put the country on the path to...
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Published in: 50.50Rashid Rehman: chronicle of a death foretold
Defenders of Pakistan's blasphemy laws say the rule of law prevents rule by mob. The May 7 murder of human rights...
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Published in: 50.50Apostasy and asylum: escaping the clutches of religionIn countries where there are no apostasy laws, blasphemy laws are frequently used to persecute and punish apostates....
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Published in: 50.50Algeria: voices for democratic transition cannot be silencedIn the six weeks since the citizens Barakat movement for a free and democratic Algeria was founded it has moved from...
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Published in: 50.50Let’s criminalise forced marriage: secular and Islamic perspectives
In a rejoinder to Amrit Wilson's article Criminalising forced marriage in the UK: why it will not help women,...
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Published in: 50.50University Challenge: secular neutrality or religious privilege?
UK universities appear to be elevating the right to manifest religion and religious freedom over other rights,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKImmigration and the British dreamDoes solidarity break down with multiculturalism? And if so, how can we respond? Rumy Hasan reviews The British...
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Published in: 50.50Remembering Cassandra Balchin (24 May 1962 - 12 July 2012)
Cass Balchin was a founding sister of openDemocracy 50.50 and a leading contributor to our dialogue on Gender...
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Published in: 50.50Fundamentalism and education
At a time when global warming requires that we do our most creative thinking, public education and free thought are...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria: When the Rivers Turned Black
Fundamentalist mass murder of Algerian people of letters in the 1990s was an intellectocide, in the tradition of...
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Published in: 50.50Algérie: Quand les fleuves sont devenus noirs
L'assassinat massif des intellectuels algériens par les intégristes dans les années 1990 est un veritable...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria twenty years on: words do not dieThis year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Algerian jihadists war on culture. Those who waged the intellectual...
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Published in: 50.50Algérie vingt ans plus tard : les mots ne meurent pasCette année marque le vingtième anniversaire de la guerre menée par des djihadistes algériens contre la culture....
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Published in: 50.50Death in Woolwich: a case of déjà vu?
The Prevent strategy in the UK has not worked. Prevent 2.0 needs a fundamental rethink if the mistakes of the past...
