On Friday 16th Oct 2015, Zara Faris was invited by the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) to speak at a cross-panel debate on the criminalisation of Islam and tackling extremism in London entitled, ‘The Big Question: Is Islam The Cause Or Solution To Extremism?’ The panel was chaired […]
On Friday 12th June 2015, iERA held its second ‘Don’t Hate, Debate!’ event on the compatibility of Islam and British values.’ The panel of speakers on the day were: • Sajid Varda – (Chairperson) Islam Channel • Hamza Tzortzis – Head of Education and Research at iERA • […]
MDI Comment: This interesting article by two professors of Political philosophy and history, describes how the current condition of the Muslim world and the regimes that preside over it are the direct creation of Western colonialism and the ideas coming from the Western enlightenment about governance and rule, […]
MDI Comment: In the oldest Secular Liberal Democracy on Earth, Britain, new ‘counter-extremism’ powers are to be introduced to silence all individuals who advocate opinions that Secular Liberal’s deem to be ‘extremist’ under the excuse of tackling ‘Islamic Extremism’. However, the tidal wave of laws to force ‘social cohesion’ […]
On May 9th, 2015 I gave a lecture on Liberalism in Muslim Thought at IMEC 2015 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The lecture touched up on some of the basic principles of Liberalism and the three major effects it has on Muslim-majority societies at large: (1) The degradation of […]
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