1. Blood and Belonging
   Journey into the New Nationalism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   
2. Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
3. 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.
   
4. Encyclopaedia of Islam
   New Editon
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
   
6. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
7. Reflections on Islam
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
8. Islamic Peril
   Media And Global Violence
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   
9. The Islamophobia Myth
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2005
   Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
   
10. Nonviolence
    Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
11. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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."
    
12. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
13. Why I Am Not A Muslim
    Resource Type: Book
    

Experts on Muslims in the Sources Directory

1. Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
2. Reflections on Islam
3. Organization of the Islamic Conference
4. Women Living Under Muslim Law